By: Atticus Dogsbody
Correction, My washing machine just took me to the Council of Trent. My mistake, sorry.
View ArticleBy: S.K. Cheung
To 52: that is absolutely the dumbest analogy I’ve ever heard. And you’ve said some pretty stupid stuff in your time here, so well done for actually outdoing yourself. And if you like the CCP’s fridge...
View ArticleBy: t_co
@ SK The Clock is a troll – That aside, I have a simple question: if you had to give the Xi/Li teams some concrete goals to shoot for by, say, 2017, what would you do? How would you prioritize? They...
View ArticleBy: King Tubby
Baiting the Clock is a waste of time, so lets think about Bo Xilai’s attempt to fight the power. Apparently, he is refusing to eat or shave and won’t produce the required confession, so the narrative...
View ArticleBy: t_co
Baiting the Clock is a waste of time, so lets think about Bo Xilai’s attempt to fight the power. Apparently, he is refusing to eat or shave and won’t produce the required confession, so the narrative...
View ArticleBy: justrecently
if you read Xi’s recent remarks, you’ll see that it is refreshingly clear of ideology and focused on pursuing the same Chinese renaissance we spoke about earlier The “Chinese renaissance” in itself is...
View ArticleBy: S.K. Cheung
To T-co, if Xi can manage to relax media control/censorship, and allow some semblance of rule of law to percolate into the Chinese system, all within the span of five years, then his legacy will...
View ArticleBy: China: A Meritocracy of Mediocrity? - China Digital Times (CDT)
[...] by Victor Shih, Christopher Adolph, and Mingxing Liu in American Political Science Review (PDF) – The unintended consequence of the “China-as-meritocracy” debates, from Peking Duck – Economic...
View ArticleBy: China: A Meritocracy of Mediocrity? | Up to the hour news
[...] by Victor Shih, Christopher Adolph, and Mingxing Liu in American Political Science Review (PDF)- The unintended consequence of the “China-as-meritocracy” debates, from Peking Duck- Economic...
View ArticleBy: S.K. Cheung
That CDT link is a good read, as is the NYT link therein. “merit” in CCP parlance is just another word for guanxi. And “guanxi” is just another means and form of corruption. So if “merit”= “guanxi”,...
View ArticleBy: t_co
The problem is that any well-rounded admissions process would instantly turn into a cesspit of corruption. The gaokao is not fair or objective, but it is (relatively) bribe-proof
View ArticleBy: S.K. Cheung
That’s true. Anything holistic by nature introduces subjective elements, which can then be manipulated by nefarious means, and the corruption angle in China is of course a very real one. I agree that’s...
View ArticleBy: Cookie Monster
?You’re once again simply arguing against the US. There is more to life (and democracy) than simply the US of A. No one I know of has ever said that China should emulate/copy/incorporate/institute the...
View ArticleBy: S.K. Cheung
LOL. What are these “fanatic delusions”? This I would love to hear, from the deluded one himself. If you’re claiming to not focus solely on the US, then you need to stop dredging up examples that only...
View ArticleBy: Cookie Monster
Indeed, there are failed democracies. Would you like a list of failed autocracies? So that argument for you goes nowhere, as usual. The point is NOT what others couldn’t do; it’s what Chinese people...
View ArticleBy: S.K. Cheung
OK, since you’re predictably silent on it, we can hopefully dispense with your juvenile fixation with all things US when it comes to democracy. No examples of “fanatic delusions”? That’s okay too....
View ArticleBy: Cookie Monster
the CCP is good for some secrecy in its succession transition, and for making CCP officials and their families stinking rich…the higher the official, the stinkier Your definition of “stinking rich”...
View ArticleBy: Doug
CM – Aristocracy is not a terrible system of government, especially when it is an aristocracy that permits some movement into it, as the current Chinese aristocracy does. The problem is whether the...
View ArticleBy: S.K. Cheung
“You’ll have to explain how democracy would actually improve the situation” —once again, you’ve missed the point. It’s habit-forming for you. Sure, there can be corruption in a democracy. But to have...
View ArticleBy: t_co
I’d go one step further than Doug and state that for a while, the Party could use economic growth to behave like a Santa Claus, dispensing largesse to every segment of society; now it has to be the...
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