This is why I'm more convinced of China's impending collapse, they have this much resources and focus to continue the fear campaign and enforcement, it's not sustainable.
You have to consider how China, unlike White Americans and Europeans, has a traditional culture of respecting those in power. The individual doesn't matter. Until the CCP loses what the average Chinese citizen sees as the mandate of heaven, then this shall continue.
Chinese culture is more conformist, yes, but every government's mandate ultimately derives from its ability to keep people fed and out of abject poverty. If it fails to do that, it will eventually generate a revolution.
The reason that hasn't happened yet in the ostensibly freedom-minded West, despite numerous and obvious abuses by our own leaders, is that we're still too comfortable. The CCP is really pushing its luck right now, though.
This is why I'm more convinced of China's impending collapse, they have this much resources and focus to continue the fear campaign and enforcement, it's not sustainable.
You have to consider how China, unlike White Americans and Europeans, has a traditional culture of respecting those in power. The individual doesn't matter. Until the CCP loses what the average Chinese citizen sees as the mandate of heaven, then this shall continue.
Chinese culture is more conformist, yes, but every government's mandate ultimately derives from its ability to keep people fed and out of abject poverty. If it fails to do that, it will eventually generate a revolution.
The reason that hasn't happened yet in the ostensibly freedom-minded West, despite numerous and obvious abuses by our own leaders, is that we're still too comfortable. The CCP is really pushing its luck right now, though.