Rebuttal by Chinese academic of USA academic's "Coming Chinese Crackup" recent article
Here is a rebuttal of views similar to and including the USA academic's recent article on "Coming Chinese Crackup" [See my blog post: US academic's rather shocking view of the current political and social situation in China] by a professor in a Beijing university, Xie Tao, http://thediplomat.com/authors/xie-tao/, "Why Do People Keep Predicting China's Collapse?", http://thediplomat.com/2015/03/why-do-people-keep-predicting-chinas-collapse/.
Some comments from me on the article:
* Tao has certainly gone on the attack on Shambaugh! Hmm. Academics writing on politics perhaps have to face such articles attacking them and not just their views. But this seems to be a lesser version of what real politicians do and face.
* About the author accepting that China has problems but then mentioning that USA too has serious problems and could be viewed as "terminally ill": Pessimistic view but does seem to have a lot of valid points. I think appalling inequality is the most worrying of the problems not only for USA but also for countries like China and India.
* About authoritarian resurgence: Quite a fascinating point! The chaos and gridlock of many democracies in the world today, which is given full publicity by the free media in such democracies, increases the appeal of authoritarianism and may even lead to authoritarianism resurgence! Hmm. Real food for thought, this one.
* Small concluding extract from the article:
“All societies, authoritarian and democratic, are subject to decay over time,” wrote Francis Fukuyama. “The real issue is their ability to adapt and eventually fix themselves.” The Chinese party-state is certainly undergoing policy decay — just like most Western democracies — but it is too early to call the Chinese patient terminally ill.
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[Ravi comment: I think the author has got it right in the concluding extract given above.]
Some comments from me on the article:
* Tao has certainly gone on the attack on Shambaugh! Hmm. Academics writing on politics perhaps have to face such articles attacking them and not just their views. But this seems to be a lesser version of what real politicians do and face.
* About the author accepting that China has problems but then mentioning that USA too has serious problems and could be viewed as "terminally ill": Pessimistic view but does seem to have a lot of valid points. I think appalling inequality is the most worrying of the problems not only for USA but also for countries like China and India.
* About authoritarian resurgence: Quite a fascinating point! The chaos and gridlock of many democracies in the world today, which is given full publicity by the free media in such democracies, increases the appeal of authoritarianism and may even lead to authoritarianism resurgence! Hmm. Real food for thought, this one.
* Small concluding extract from the article:
“All societies, authoritarian and democratic, are subject to decay over time,” wrote Francis Fukuyama. “The real issue is their ability to adapt and eventually fix themselves.” The Chinese party-state is certainly undergoing policy decay — just like most Western democracies — but it is too early to call the Chinese patient terminally ill.
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[Ravi comment: I think the author has got it right in the concluding extract given above.]
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