QPK,
Don't you think that mainland China's leadership basically has a very pragmatic agenda? I mean I don't think that Jiang Zemin, Zhu Rongji and the others are fundamentally against Western democracy; instead, what Chinese leaders are forcefully opposed to is the wholesale splintering of their great country: Chinese belong to an old civilization after all.... they just can't be fooled by "Western barnstormers" who want to sell them the "100%-Anglo-Saxon Democracy" package! 'Cause they know that, in the Chinese case, it'd merely be a proxy for breakaway politics.
Indeed, that is --and always has been-- the way the Capitalist steamroller proceeds: on the premise that every country has its "profit centers" alongside "basket cases", that is, regions without profitable manpower and/or resources.... Hence Capitalism's carve-up strategy --let's dub it the Brunei Gerrymander: using power politics and the whole boodle with local politicos, foreign capitalists target the best parcels (Hong Kong, Shangai, and most of China's seashore) and then they slice them off --like they did with Kuwait/Irak or Brunei/Malaysia or Russia/Uzbekistan or... you name it!
It's obvious that it's not difficult for foreign companies to bribe the locals into their turfing scheme: it's just a matter of financing "democratic" parties that call for secessionism, independence, self-rule, and whatnot! Later on, western corporations and their breakaway stooges can calmly share out the loot (oil, real estate, manpower, whatever) among themselves, leaving the bulk of unproductive people out in the cold....
Gus. |
