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L. G. Anderson's avatar

No comment other than Xi has started the demise of China's strength -its people- by taking incentive to 'do well' away. I am happy to see this - I feel no sympathy for the current Chinese regime - they'll find out that 'the people' will not take this gov't control. I wish Russians were as strong as the Chinese resistance

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Dave Love's avatar

It took two decades to bring China from poverty into the middle class (at the expense of gullible/naive Western politicians and businessmen), but with all the looming problems China now faces (energy and food supplies, unsustainable debt, aging population and loss of foreign investment in manufacturing, to name but a few), how long will it take Xi to push the country - or what will be left of it - back into the poverty that always accompanies full-on communism?

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