The secret negotiations behind the Hong Kong handover

Re:The secret negotiations behind the Hong Kong handover by dis-sys on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @06:14AM (#14593345)

"see, we have ways to change things for the better, too!" There were "changes" in your old USSR days, but was there anything like having a Communist party actively supporting capitalism? In China, it is called the 1978 reform. If you call this "controlled outlets", well, that is gotta to be a pretty big one.

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Re:The secret negotiations behind the Hong Kong handover by lambdadmitry on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @06:29AM (#14593407)

You do realize that you use a reform pushed from the top as an example of a change coming from below, right? It's not even an "outlet", it's just yet another autocratic decision by ruling elite. It can be aimed to give an impression of social progress, but fundamentally it's still the same way of governing.

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Re:The secret negotiations behind the Hong Kong handover by boomboomsubban on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @09:18AM (#14594364)

>In China, it is called the 1978 reform

Lenin's New Economic Policy in the USSR.

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