Originally Posted by Triple C

If the CCP is so necessary and beloved by the people, why is it affraid of disorder? Is it really disorder that it is trying to avert, or its own downfall? If there is a general election in China tommorow the CPP will win. The only reason for not having one is that they are too affraid to even face a competition!

The Russian senario is a scarecrow. There will be no break-away republics because over ninety per cent of the Chinese citizens are Hans. They also inhabit every province that is remotely hospitable to human life. Why would China worry about losing the Gobi desert and Himalyan mountains?

Every dictatorship want to tell its people that it is necessary, that armagaddon will come if it is removed from power--even though it is more often then not the regime responsible for creating the preconditions for that armagaddon. The longer the CPP stay in power, the more spectacular it will be when it goes.