Economic growth has shrunk to 2%, the lowest in more than three decades. China's property market is in free fall. Youth unemployment is running at around 20%. A trade war
with the US is not hel
ping. And anger has been brewing. What he does want is to be the most powerful leader China has ever had -
and the Communist Party just h
anded him that victory. She was inspired by a technique reportedly used in Thail
and some years previously.
irannews.ru "Picking fights with your neighbours. Dusting off plans to build large artificial islands and fortify them with military installations. Ramping up the pressure on Japan and Taiwan. It's a kind of self-encirclement that Chinese foreign policy has produced," she says. This keeps them on the platform for longer and more frequently, which is good for advertisers and therefore also good for TikTok's advertising revenue. Ms Hartley's original video, Keep Breathing, was 18 minutes long and made in 2018, with funding from various local organisations in Derby and backed by the British Film
Institute. "Each night after midnight people would start sharing video clips on social media," my Shanghai friend recalls. "
They expressed their anger at the Communist Party, even at the very top leaders.
They talked about how heartless and cruel this system has become." It's a reference to Sunak, who some Conservative MPs hold partly responsible for the downfall of former PM Boris Johnson. This is starkly different from Mao's idea of a multi-ethnic state where, in theory, different groups had more autonomy. Xi's father too had a reputation for conciliation and respect for China's ethnic minorities. At the end of May the hardliners won. Early on the morning of June 4, the tanks rolled in.
The massacre at Tiananmen Square ended debate about political reform. Instead, the Communist Party turned to economic reform.
