For China the end of the Communist party is nigh — but in name only

[gambit]

maybe my logic was too complicated for you. its k.

It is a safe retreat. Not too obvious in its pretentiousness.

 

[Audio]

I will not comment on the Singapore issue, because Singapore really isn't the same as China and it will be apples and oranges.

Not that i want to argue, apples and oranges are different indeed, but the process of growing them is more or less the same.
What i'm trying to say is, there's a finite number of governance models/options and all can be applied to pretty much any entity, be it small like Singapore or big like China.

 

[greenwood]

China will change name into Islamic China in 100 years. Every year, China adds hundreds of millions Muslim population. Mojority Han joined into Islam increasely. Allah bless China, China will be the leader of Islamic world in the future.

 

[Echo_419]

They say that, because they see Singapore as inherently less threatening to their Western sensibilities.

But frankly it won't make a difference. They will be scared of China anyway, and there is nothing to be done about that.

Even if China becomes a "liberal democracy" (or a giant Singapore) then they will find other reasons to be afraid, just like they are still afraid of Russia even though they changed their political system.

The only way they will stop being afraid is if China becomes a vassal state to them, like we would have if the KMT were still ruling.

But the ship has sailed on that front. Now all they can do is pray, and hope that we fail on our own.

If anyone thinks they oppose you becuz of your political system then thru are dead wrong god forbid if China falls the next Western target will be the World's largest democracy

 

[Zsari]

CCP is simply maturing from a revolutionary party to a ruling party. Ideology is useful in motivating the mass to seize power, but useless in governing a state. Mao's biggest mistake was that the party under him never transited away from its revolutionary role. Past 30 years we finally saw the transition and its result. For any ruling party, it is the best for its ideology to be left on the shelf in a corner in the backroom somewhere and the same goes for CCP. As far as the name is concerned, just like the Chinese national anthem was born out of the anti-Japanese resistance that is completely irrelevant today, it however reminds people of one's root and a sense of identity that will be enduring.

 

[Borr]

CCP the name has a hidden but valuable function: It carries a moralistic/ideological whip that a `meritocratic union' doesn't. This ensures a universal moralistic pressure to everyone that is involved, which would be pretty much non-existent in rival partisan politics.

Similar role as the royal throne to the imperial bureaucrats and/or religious morals to republicans.