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Chinese People Under Occupation – A Useful Lens for Understanding Today’s China. It can help to think about the Chinese as an occupied people – ruled now by the CCP Dynasty. It is useful to realize that most of CCP is no longer really communist. But there is a resilience internal to CCP. What keeps cadres loyal to the system they joined years ago?
The arguments for resilience – the emperor, the literati, and the farmers – any two against the other. Benefits and Mancur Olson on stationary bandits. CCP as the new literati and the light touch of central government on the people. A village aphorism – “the Center is our benefactor, the province is our relative, the county is a good person, the township is an evil person and the village is our enemy.”
