Yet if you believe that the problem isn't the Chinese Communist Party's monopoly of power, you lack the nuance to get a PhD. Check this out by Francis Fukuyama:
The fiasco of the Olympic torch relay has focused attention on human rights in China. What is the source of human rights abuses in that country today? Many people assume the problem is that China remains a communist dictatorship and that abuses occur because a strong, centralized state ignores the rights of its citizens. With regard to Tibet and the suppression of the religious movement Falun Gong, this may be right. But the larger problem in today's China arises out of the fact that the central Chinese state is in certain ways too weak to defend the rights of its people.
The vast majority of abuses against the rights of ordinary Chinese citizens -- peasants who have their land taken away without just compensation, workers forced to labor under sweatshop conditions or villagers poisoned by illegal dumping of pollutants -- occur at a level far below that of the government in Beijing.
Spew your beer across your computer screen like I did? This is drooling idiocy that not even ten dollar college words can rescue. Silly me, I assumed the problem is that China remains a communist dictatorship and that abuses occur because a strong, centralized state ignores the rights of its citizens. Fukuyama says, not so fast you simpletons!
In what isolated world of academic life must you live in to hold the view that China's lack of freedoms result from too little communist party central power? The central government certainly lacks a certain amount of control over what happens in the provinces, but to the degree that the provincial and local leaders compete with the central government over power, it is a contest to see which level of government gets to control and exploit the people for the benefit of the elites.
Good God. The last man drooling, is what he is. Well, sadly, not the last man, I admit. The end of idiocy is not yet upon us.
