Edward

New Communism would mean a revised version of the previous system (to the worst or the better). Glasnost and Perestoika were new communism. Present day China is not. Hence it is more powerful.

China adopted TWO concurrent, opposed systems that can only survive together through hypocricy and their inherent inhuman outlook.

Foreigners who visit China and laugh at the fact that it is still called communist, proves that the way china projects itself to foreigners…is getting results. Globally.

And some maltese, nostalgic schoolboy who still wants to prove the golden years of labour, is dragging us into this. But what does the voter care. The bottom line is, “it has been said for years and we did it”.

Finally it was always clear that the “road plan” (a phrase as far as i know used only in the israeli-palestine conflict and which came to mean absolute failure) was devised by bisnessmen who are now asking their share back. Not from the authorities but from each voter.

L-aqwa il-Viva Santa Liena

People call it new communism. What on the face of it looks like a change away from communism is not, since the policies and institutions governing that country are still extractive and controlled by the state.

Many people who try to open a business themselves get into a great deal of trouble with the government because it doesn’t like competition.

The result, I think, will be a China that is kept the same, with no incentive for creativity and sustainable growth.

Basically, my guess is that all it will take is one shift in thinking or one new invention and China will struggle and collapse.

The only reason why it hasn’t yet is because it has enough money at the moment to manipulate the situation. But this only makes the inevitable fall much harder in the future.

I have spoken to Chinese people. They say otherwise. I guess we both have different experiences.

Brothers Karamasov:

When there is no God, anything can happen.

There is no new communism. What China has done is to remain communist for its people but become capitalist for the rest of the world. This dawned on the communist authorities on day one when one man holding a plastic bag stood in front of a line of war tanks.

This is not a new form of politics. The two things are separate, feeding on each other, even in China because:

(1) both capitalism and communism and fundamentally inhuman;

(2) the joint venture between two opposing systems is not reconciliation into some new political system but only apparent. It is a relationship of fundamental hypocrisy.

Dear Edward,

After several years in China I can say that at no time have I heard the word communism emanate from a Chinese mouth.

What will be referred to in conversation is The Party and the PRC (Peoples Republic of China), and the Chinese Way – a loose term that means nobody really knows where things are going as that would require hindsight.

In one of Wen Jiabao’s last international press conferences (in Germany) he stated that sometime contradictory policies need to be followed until such time as we know which one works.

Hindsight is not required in their relationship to Malta: They give Malta things and Malta prostitutes itself and its people, the Chinese will have no illusion about whom they are dealing with, none whatsoever. Quite simply: ‘pimps, thieves and scoundrels’