China General Discussion

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This thread could be a lot more interesting if we had some idea of whether Xi Jinping is a Mikhael Gorbachev-in waiting. 

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Foucaulf, Anvi, and Ex-Naderite:

Do you see China gradually (too slowly perhaps for Beet's liking) liberalizing and democratizing to the point it becomes a multiparty parliamentary democracy -perhaps by mid-century?  

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Xi Jinping sees himself as a 21st century emperor, it seems like:

Leader Taps Into Chinese Classics in Seeking to Cement Power

By CHRIS BUCKLEY
OCT. 11, 2014

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Now the citizens of Hong Kong get to elect their district council representatives the same way ordinary Chinese elect theirs on the mainland -you can vote for any member of any political party, so long as they belong to (or are aligned with) the Chinese Communist Party:

Hong Kong holds first council elections under new rules that shut out pro-democracy candidates