Pener Kropoopkin posted:

I wonder what the Vietnamese have to say about China's history of pacifism?

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

I wonder what the Vietnamese have to say about China's history of pacifism?

Typo posted:

the chekists (rightfully) feared for their lives against outnumbered protesters attacking them with metal pipes and still showed enough restraint to only shoot the rightist in the shoulder

GreyjoyBastard posted:

fuckers murdered a TON of pacifist Chinese activists nonviolently protesting against Vietnam's crushing of Cambodian communism

Xander B Coolridge posted:

How many layers of irony do I have to dig through to understand this comment, or does this thread actually super love the taste of boots?

Xander B Coolridge posted:

How many layers of irony do I have to dig through to understand this comment, or does this thread actually super love the taste of boots?

R. Guyovich posted:

nobody thinks the billionaires are "good," dipshit

R. Guyovich posted:

nobody thinks the billionaires are "good," dipshit

Bloodnose posted:

Now I realize you only pop in here every couple of weeks to post a one liner or emptyquote an old non sequitur, so let me catch you up: the tankies in here think billionaires who wear red are very very good, actually.

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

Which billionaires are wearing red?

Xander B Coolridge posted:

How many layers of irony do I have to dig through to understand this comment, or does this thread actually super love the taste of boots?

gradenko_2000 posted:

* yes but capital is still subservient to the Chinese state

NY Times posted:

BEIJING — In a country where the Communist Party makes all the big decisions, Chinese lawmakers hold very little political power. But they have plenty of money — $650 billion of it — and that’s growing.

According to the Hurun Report, a research organization in Shanghai that tracks the wealthy in China, the net worth of the 153 members of China’s Parliament and its advisory body that it deems “super rich” amounts to $650 billion, up by nearly a third from a year ago. That is just a touch below Switzerland’s annual economic output.

While President Xi Jinping has pledged to close the income gap and alleviate poverty, the wealth of the nation’s lawmakers has kept soaring. In 2017, it topped $500 billion, more than doubling from the year before. The surge in wealth reflects the strength of the Chinese economy, which grew 6.9 percent in 2017, and stock markets all over the world.

Delegates to Parliament, or the National People’s Congress, rubber-stamp most of the policies set out by the party’s leadership and are expected to approve Mr. Xi’s plan to scrap term limits and allow him to rule indefinitely when they meet in Beijing next week. But the gathering provides businesspeople with an opportunity to hobnob with one another. The title of delegate also gives them extra cachet in making business deals.

The number of billionaires in China’s legislature could contribute to the perception that the government is out of touch in a country where disposable income per capita was just over $4,000 in 2017. But many Chinese are proud of how quickly the ranks are growing. China added 210 billionaires over the past year — about four a week — 40 percent more than the United States, according to a separate list of the global rich by Hurun.

The wealthiest lawmaker is also China’s richest person, Pony Ma, whose net worth is $47 billion. He is the founder of Tencent, which owns WeChat, a social media mobile app that is indispensable in Chinese life. Tencent is now valued at $540 billion, more than Facebook.

Mr. Ma was trailed by Xu Jiayin, the chairman of the property developer Evergrande Group, whose net worth is $41 billion. Mr. Xu was China’s richest person in 2017, according to Hurun.

Other Chinese property developers also dominated the list. Lee Ka-kit, vice chairman of Henderson Land Development, is worth $34 billion, while the net worth of Country Garden Group’s founder, Yang Guoqiang, reached $32 billion.

The fortunes of China’s entrepreneurs have changed significantly since the Communist Party, which was founded to work for the interests of workers and stamp out capitalism, welcomed businesspeople into the party more than a decade ago. About 20 percent of the nearly 3,000 delegates to Parliament are businesspeople, according to government news media.

Victor Shih, an associate professor at the University of California, San Diego, and an expert on money and politics in China, said that being a member of the National People’s Congress “affords a considerable protection for the wealthy.”

“If you’re part of the NPC, you become a state cadre, and so the local police can’t arrest you easily without cause,” he said, referring to the congress.

“That’s not the case for a wealthy person who has no affiliation with the Chinese government, and wealth becomes very vulnerable to predatory action by a local government.”

GoutPatrol posted:

Please go back 4 pages when people were creaming their capitalist blue jeans over a military parade

uncop posted:

The Chinese used to know better how to parade a Xi.

Wikileaks posted:

22. (C) Xi is a true "elitist" at heart, according to the professor, and believes that rule by a dedicated and committed Communist Party leadership is the key to enduring social stability and national strength, as in the (self-perceived) elite-dominated society of his youth, knit together by family ties, elders and male authority. After years of conversations with Xi, and having shared a common upbringing with him, the professor said, he is convinced that Xi has a genuine sense of "entitlement," believing that members of his generation are the "legitimate heirs" to the revolutionary achievements of their parents and therefore "deserve to rule China." For this reason, the professor maintained, Xi could never be a "true member" of current President Hu Jintao's camp, even if Xi did not give any indication of opposition to Hu Jintao now. Xi and other first-generation princelings derisively refer to people with non-Party, non-elite, commercial backgrounds like Hu Jintao as "shopkeepers' sons," whose parents did not fight and die for the revolution and therefore do not deserve positions of power.

Bro Dad posted:

they literally are the state

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/01/business/china-parliament-billionaires.html

Bloodnose posted:

Now I realize you only pop in here every couple of weeks to post a one liner or emptyquote an old non sequitur, so let me catch you up: the tankies in here think billionaires who wear red are very very good, actually.

R. Guyovich posted:

the parliament has over 3,000 members.

Modest Mao posted:

you're saying because the number of billionaires in the communist government is diluted a little bit it doesn't count

Members include Jackie Chan and Yao Ming, some of China's better film directors like Feng Xiaogang, Chen Kaige and Jie Jiangke, some big name actors, novelists, singers, etc. And also a lot of kids of famous people. People are well aware its membership can be a bit of a joke, famous and wealthy people secretly campaign to get in because being on it looks patriotic keeping them safer, and the government is happy to keep powerful people feeling that working with the government is better than working to undermine it, especially for second generation wealthy and famous.

The majority are real politicians its true though, and the thing is they are by-in-large wealthy, old, han, male, party members. wow

Modest Mao posted:

Members include Jackie Chan and Yao Ming, some of China's better film directors like Feng Xiaogang, Chen Kaige and Jie Jiangke, some big name actors, novelists, singers, etc. And also a lot of kids of famous people. People are well aware its membership can be a bit of a joke, famous and wealthy people secretly campaign to get in because being on it looks patriotic keeping them safer, and the government is happy to keep powerful people feeling that working with the government is better than working to undermine it, especially for second generation wealthy and famous.

Crusader posted:

https://twitter.com/anti_elab/status/1178965849404608514

Sheng-Ji Yang posted:

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1178986524630802432?s=19

Bro Dad posted:

shame they werent more successful

R. Guyovich posted:

it's literally less than 1 percent. in what universe is this "diluted a little bit"

and the number has been steadily decreasing with each successive npc/cppcc national committee. it used to be well over twice that number.

uncop posted:

Known Lecher posted:

No no, Jackie Chan etc are members of the CPPCC, the figurehead companion body to the figurehead National People’s Congress, you idiot, you moron, you absolute buffoon.

Frijolero posted:

China, you heard it hear first, you're loving cancelled