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deschlong t1_iy8gn98 wrote

Reply to comment by lalalaladididi in Chinese authorities on Monday appeared to be moving to frame a wave of nationwide anti-lockdown protests at the weekend as the work of "hostile foreign forces," with university students ordered to leave campus and go back to their hometowns aboard specially arranged train services by EssoEssex

The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more slips through your fingers

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lalalaladididi t1_iy946ws wrote

And where do you get that pearl of wisdom from.

The soviet union was held together with a vice like grip. Those that slipped through the net didn't matter because there weren't enough of them. These regimes always factor a few falling through the cracks into their tactics and equations.

Empirically, such regimes will always eventually crumble. That's not down to a few individuals falling through the cracks.

What's happening in China was always going to happen. However, I suspect its unlikely to bring down the regime. It will eventually fall but not just yet.

The West will do their best to accelerate the process but not for human rights reasons. They want access to the vast numbers of people etc so they can exploit them and expand their dubious influence. The same went for the soviet union. We didn't care about the peoples rights etc we only wanted access to so multinationals could exploit the people. And that's exactly what they have done.

Human rights cut profits and that's why multinational companies don't like them.

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