Goof,
Yes the American public supported the Iraqi war by 90%. That showed up as support for W. That level of support was very short lived. It was not about W. The German public supported Hitlerâs wars. It lasted while Hitler was successful. But I have known familyâs whose leaders from Germany risked their lives avoiding becoming a Nazi and mocking the German army. Hard choices were made in the name of evil by the many Germans. I am not excusing that. Many were glad Hitler came to ruin. George McGovern has a story about that which is quite impressive. When Germany was conquered at least in the west things changed over a matter of a few years like never before in a history of a conquered nation.
I have worked closely some years ago with Chinese immigrants that never left the Chinese community in NYC. Barely speaking any English. You know very little about the Chinese culture and taking orders.
Americans way under estimate the Chinese public. Xi is only there by the Chinese publicâs graces. Does not matter at the end of the day if he has complete power. That would not really stop the Chinese public from hanging the entire communist party. The party is very aware of that and respects they must provide economically. That ability to provide is disappearing.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/17/business/china-economy-reâŚ
NYT
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The mortgage rebellions have roiled a property market facing the fallout from a decades-long housing bubble. It has also created unwanted complication for President Xi Jinping, who is expected to coast to a third term as party leader later this year on a message of social stability and continued prosperity in China.
So far, the government has scrambled to limit the attention garnered by the boycotts. After an initial flurry of mortgage strike notices went viral on social media, the governmentâs internet censors kicked into action. But the influence of the strikes has already begun to spread.
The number of properties where collectives of homeowners have started or threatened to boycott has reached 326 nationwide, according to a crowdsourced list titled âWeNeedHomeâ on GitHub, an online repository. ANZ Research estimates that the boycotts could affect about $222 billion of home loans sitting on bank balance sheets, or roughly 4 percent of outstanding mortgages.
This wiki page on the Chinese culture might surprise you.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protest_and_dissent_in_China
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In spite of restrictions on freedom of association, particularly in the decades since the death of Mao Zedong, there have been incidents of protest and dissent in China. Among the most notable of these were the 1959 Tibetan uprising against Chinese Communist Party (CCP) rule, the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, which were put down with brutal military force, and the 25 April 1999 demonstration by 10,000 Falun Gong practitioners at Zhongnanhai. Protesters and dissidents in China espouse a wide variety of grievances, including corruption, forced evictions, unpaid wages, human rights abuses, environmental degradation, ethnic protests, petitioning for religious freedom and civil liberties, protests against one-party rule, as well as nationalist protests against foreign countries.
The number of annual protests has grown steadily since the early 1990s, from approximately 8,700 âmass group incidentsâ in 1993[1] to over 87,000 in 2005.[2] In 2006, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences estimated the number of annual mass incidents to exceed 90,000, and Chinese sociology professor Sun Liping estimated 180,000 incidents in 2010.[3][4] Mass incidents are defined broadly as âplanned or impromptu gathering that forms because of internal contradictionsâ, and can include public speeches or demonstrations, physical clashes, public airings of grievances, and other group behaviors that are seen as disrupting social stability.[5]
Despite the increase in protests, some scholars have argued that they may not pose an existential threat to CCP rule because they lack âconnective tissue;â[6] the preponderance of protests in China are aimed at local-level officials, and only a select few dissident movements seek systemic change.[7] In a study conducted by Chinese academic Li Yao, released in 2017, the majority of protests which were non-controversial did not receive much if any negative police action, which is to say police may have been present but in no more capacity than Western police would be attending to a protest/mass gathering event. The idea that Chinese do not protest or would be brutally repressed for any kind of political action does not seem to be supported by existing data.[8] In addition, it was noted at times that the national government uses these protests as a barometer to test local officialsâ response to the citizens under their care.