I subscribe to ChinaSmack blogsite. While I don't know how widely held the comments are, heck I don't even know if they're translated accurately---they're still interesting as hell. Here are a few, follow the link to read the whole thing.
红玛瑙:
Does the country/government’s strength and power have anything to do with us?
織田信長:
The more advanced the PLA’s weapons are, just means the more people that can be suppressed on Changan Avenue.
红玛瑙:
No wonder everyone says it is easy to be a [government] leader. I’d rather see the price of cabbage fall 5 mao.
正宗张江男:
Slaves cheering the slave-master for researching and developing an even more powerful killing machine? What kind of reasoning is this?腾讯上海市网友:
Not bad not bad…I’m happy for the test flight’s success, though China normally only reports the things that are basically guaranteed to succeed. Since they said it was a test flight, then it is certain that they’ve done secret training exercises already…hehe
I would take these with a pinch of salt. The real hardcore forums are usually restricted to Chinese citizens only and block foreign IP's from registering or viewing the postings.
ReplyDeleteAlthough that being said there is a significant amount of ground level discontent among the population in China (although nowhere near the kind of levels outside observers want to believe). Its just that the discontent is for the moment just that, discontent...nothing more. The rioting and unrest one reads about is mostly about localized issues with corruption, bullying and jobs losses. Very rarely does this discontent boil over into open anti-government action (think Xinjiang, Tibet, Tienanmen levels).
For the most part the Chinese population is pretty OK as long as they get to live their lives peacefully, make no mistake they might be cribbing about money spent on weapons now, but when it comes to the country using those weapons against the likes of Taiwan, Japan, India or indeed the US, they will all to the last man and woman fall in line to back their leaders.
Like the saying goes in liberal political circles, a Communist China is a much less dangerous entity than a Democratic one, no matter how much you might hate the Beltway crowd, you do have to agree with that statement.
Solomon only the Chinese outside chine would there to comment on a blog. Probably these comments are from people who can not come back to china. I do not think this is representative of the Chinese people.
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Another Ostrich's post....
ReplyDeleteSince when do we "care" about Russian folks' opinion when Sukhoi began to wholesale advanced Flankers?
Everything I've seen indicates that the avg Chinese are now even more nationalistic than their leaders. The Chicoms have relied ever more on nationalistic fervor to unite and control the population since they abandoned any pretense on communist purity.
ReplyDeleteIt's similar to how the military dictatorships in Pakistan and Turkey used Islam to unite and control the people, and now that has metastized into radical Islamists taking over both countries.
I do fear that the average Chinese would support a much more aggressive and militaristic China then currently exists. If and when the Chicom dam bursts, that first generation of Chinese democracy could be very troublesome.
With DefSec's blessing, USAF'S plan to kill the dragon:
ReplyDeleteAPG-63(V)3 AESA equipped F-15C and APG-82(V)4 equipped F-15E
http://wired.com/dangerroom/2011/01/old-school-jet/