Http://chinaheritage.net/journal/chinas-red-empire-to-be-or-not-to-be/
I don't want to be "that guy", but seeing this doublethink where the Party OPENLY (this is the key) manipulates "the China story" to deny Chinese imperialism and expansionism and declares the Chinese a peace-loving people, at odds with both historical reality and current actions, makes me really scared given the increasing Chinese prominence in international affairs.
China has effectively fulfilled the premise of fascism, combining a ML political model with a corporatist economic model, and it seems there's no way out of it. If their influence keeps growing as western liberal democracies collapse, and they wish to impose this system upon their tributary states, there won't be a way out of it for us either
Trapped in such a system, the only way out of it would be through internal reform, which would require activists to keep their ideas hidden and play the role of yes-men while rising in the hierarchy through decades. It was either socialism or barbarism, and we chose barbarism
gg no re
A war between the NATO west and China might destroy any faith in non-revolutionary politics enough for revolution to be possible.
Am I on fox news dot com?
We can only hope that our Space Comrades intervene and rescue us after the nuclear holocaust, when all traces of Stalinism disappear and they present us with Intergalactic Socialism
If we survive than revolution will be guaranteed. WW1 destroyed the empires of old. It can happen again.
LOL kill yourself China is going to build the backbone of eurasian socialism thru the new Silk Road
China has had uninterrupted economic growth since 1988, they are in their growth period of capitalism. Once this period ends and their market economy naturally busts, suddenly China's government runs out of money (either tax revenue from taxpayers or sales from customers via state owned companies) and has to start making decisions between paying out pensions or paying out investors' debts. If history is any guide, they will chose the latter because if they refuse to pay investors then their entire economy and government collapses as companies, then banks, then the government (who owns the banks) declares bankruptcy. At this point Beijing would have to impose full communism and make all the new companies workers collectives or coops. In this case Imperialism stops because workers will vote against it because they don't want to pay for it.
More likely, they'll simply cut workers off and create another massive economic crisis but save their zombie companies, banks and other firms. This will lead to most of China rotting away like Detroit has since their 2013 bankruptcy, with their companies existing in a permanent state of distress (but alive) under a mountain of debt. By the time those firms start going bankrupt Carillon-style China will be facing a major political crisis like the UK currently is.
In other words, China's model is not sustainable because capitalism is not sustainable. Either they choose to kill it and not become fascist imperialists or they instigate a much longer downfall. China was already there in 1988 but through capitalism pushed it off for a generation, if it happens again they won't be able to play the capitalism card again.
Chinese growth will probably slow down to a 1-2% growth rate per year, as they start maxing out growth. They will first become a first world country, and in general the average Chinese will have a high quality of life. Thy will do a lot of Imperialist shit currently done by America to sustain their capitalist economy, but don’t expect a crash from there. Just stagnation.
Western observers have been constantly predicting the collapse of China for the last 30 years but they always manage to adapt, thanks to their corporatist structure the government can very effortlessly direct investment, like it's doing now with renewables, so I'm kind of skeptical of a great unpredictable crisis occurring. Even when it comes to pension crisis, despite the natural reverence for their ancestors euthanasia should be coming any time, and people without social utility will likely be pressured in one way or another to commit assisted suicide, 1 out of every 4 deaths in the Netherlands are already from it, and it's applied even to people that merely suffer from depression.
If their society remains as malleable as it currently is, by controlling the flow of information, it's only a matter of time until the people defend the Party for its own sake, and justify any of its atrocities, that's the point of no return I'm afraid of tbh fam