First, demonstrations are not an "American" thing -- we protest here a lot less than other countries. France is the best at protesting maybe.
Second, I can think of a few very famous street demonstrations in China --
- The famous student uprising at Tianenmen Square that was put down using the military with serious loss of life
- The current protests in Hong Kong that are not quite as brutally put down, but which are being stopped with liberal use of *******
- The protests between the Han people and local natives in Tibet (with protesting and some violence from both sides)
I don't think it's fair to say they're "meaningless", and they do still happen in China even under risk of violence or ******* from the state.
I don't know how to say it in English. There are two incidents in Tiananmen Square. One is the people's movement to overthrow the gang of four and end the cultural revolution. We call it the May Fourth Movement. The result of this movement was the collapse of the gang of four and Deng Xiaoping grasped the oars of China.
I guess you're talking about another incident. Chinese college students were incited by Taiwan spies to fight violently in Tiananmen Square. I know this. My family lived in Xuanwumen at that time, not far from Tiananmen Square.
At the beginning of the incident, those college students robbed a lot of guns and ammunition, shot soldiers and police, even tied them up, hung them on street lamps, poured gasoline and then lit them.
Have you ever seen what people look like when they are burned alive? In that incident, I saw a soldier who was burned to death in a street lamp and a policeman who was burned to death in a car.
Those righteous college students praised by western people have made me have a nightmare for half a year.
They're not human anymore. They're beasts.
At the end of the incident, I was not sure what had happened. We hid at home and knew it was over on TV.
You say those college students are just. I think they are just impulsive idiots instigated by Taiwan spies. No Chinese will sympathize with them.
I haven't heard of any protests in Tibet. Only the Dalai Lama, the slave owner who fled abroad, is playing the role of a clown. He wants to restore slavery to Tibet. He can do nothing. If he dares to appear in Tibet, even if the Communist Party does not arrest him, Tibetan civilians will ******* him.
There are East Turkistan terrorists supported by Turkey in Xinjiang. Turkey has always wanted Xinjiang, and I don't think they can get anything.
The protest in Hong Kong is simply that some people want to remain in power, so they use the support of Britain and the United States to carry out riots. However, it is meaningless. Hong Kong's sovereignty is in the hands of China. How can they compete with a country for power?
It's just a bunch of idiots who want to control power.
Do you think that no other governments bother to solve problems or hold people accountable for them? China's secret to a stable government is trying this new idea nobody had ever thought of before -- "solve problems"? If only any government in human history had every tried to solve a problem. Alas.
This is so patronizing.
I don't mean how great the Communist Party is. I just want to tell you that the Chinese have a tradition of uprising. If the Communist Party fails to do well, this is the end of it. So I will say that the Communist Party is not great, they are just afraid.
So far, the Communist Party of China has done a good job with high support rate.
This is so patronizing?
No, I don't mean that. I'm just shocked by the performance of the U.S. government. When the virus is rampant and racial discrimination is rampant, they are still busy with political correctness, political interests and votes. Don't they see that the virus is killing people? Don't they see discrimination against minorities? Don't they know they should save lives?
Apathy, that's what I think of American politicians. I'm not mocking you. I'm just shocked by the behavior of American politicians.
I don't know what this means. We elect leaders, so by design they're supposed to represent the people they were chosen by. That's not always perfect because democracy isn't perfect, but I'm not sure that letting some guys in a small club decide everything for me without giving me any say is going to turn out well for me.
Remember the example of surgery I listed earlier?
That example fully illustrates the nature of elections, as long as you find your place.