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Re:China Makes Chat Group Administrators Criminally Liable f... by jquery on Monday September 18, 2017 @03:59AM (#15274102)
Their government's current history is measured in decades. Future historians may yet measure it in decades. Do not be so quick to praise tyranny. It will last until the economy plateaus. Only then will we see if it is resilient.
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Re:China Makes Chat Group Administrators Criminally Liable f... by addHocker on Monday September 18, 2017 @04:48AM (#15274297)
In china central governance can be measured in milenia
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Re:China Makes Chat Group Administrators Criminally Liable f... by Retric on Monday September 18, 2017 @05:00AM (#15274347)
Milenia of failure. None of their dinasty's lasted even 1,000 years and many where very short.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zdHkY3XYHKA

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Re:China Makes Chat Group Administrators Criminally Liable f... by addHocker on Monday September 18, 2017 @07:43AM (#15274982)
Millenia of continuity- as in there always where citys, there always where villages, there always where fields.

No civil war destroyed all records. No civil war spanning more then three generations. No locked in against foreigners syndrom.

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Re:China Makes Chat Group Administrators Criminally Liable f... by simonh on Monday September 18, 2017 @08:32AM (#15275261)
You could say that about Europe, the Middle East, South Asia.

If China does undergo civil and political upheaval I don't think it has the social institutions or mechanisms to suddenly switch to enlightened liberal democracy, history matters, but that doesn't mean the Communist Party is guaranteed political control in perpetuity.

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Re:China Makes Chat Group Administrators Criminally Liable f... by lightedman on Monday September 18, 2017 @09:47AM (#15275853)
"No civil war destroyed all records"

It got pretty damned close in the Cultural Revolution.

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