| I think many Chinese would argue that it isn't so much a problem of the state being too powerful but of a powerful state that lacks political legitimacy. The present government is manned by a gang of ideologically bankrupt hangers-on who have no compunction about doing whatever they need to do to maintain power.
What we hear in the Western media is only the tip of the iceberg.
"I wish I was as cocksure of anything as Tom Macaulay is of everything."
-- Viscount Melbourne |