(Un) China: fragile supoerpower

p. 6 Like all politicians, China's leaders are concerned first and foremost with their own political survival.
... The worst nightmare of China's leader is a national protest movement of discontentded groups--uinemployed workers, hard-pressed farmers, and students--united against the regime by the shared fervor of nationalism.

p.9 What distinguisges China, however, is that the survival of the regime, anot just the next election is at stake.

p.11 The Communist Party has embraced nationalism as its new ideology in an age when almost nobody believes in communism anymore. China's new commercial media and the internet, as they compete for audiences, stimulate nationalism with front-page stories hyping the threats from Jpan, Taiwan, and the US. Whenever the public pays close attention to an issue, leaders feel they have to act tough to show how strong they are.

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