Why China is Not Lke the Middle East

[Crabtownboy]

China has a very long history and one thing the Chinese people have come to fear is chaos. Times of chaos bring times of great trouble for many people. The one point in the article that I completely agtree with is the fear within the Chinese community that chaos would end the economic growth that China has enjoyed since 1990.

The big difference between China and the Mid-East is given below:

But there is a crucial difference — and this is why expectations of a Beijing Spring are premature. In the Middle East and North Africa, even in countries with decent economic growth, governments are seen as the problem. In China, for all the Communist Party's sins and ideological contortions, the regime is regarded by its people as the engineer of the most spectacular economic expansion the world has ever seen. Even as the rest of the globe suffered during the financial crisis, China kept chugging along. Why throw the bums out when the bums keep delivering? Few Chinese, schooled as they are in the perils of revolution, would want to risk Arab-style chaos.

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2053574,00.html#ixzz1FX62TShe

 

[mandym]

So who said there was any similarity?