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they do? The bedraggled Republic of China, eloigned to Taiwan since
1949, is not currently an alternative, if it ever was. The “ROChinese,”
or the Blue-leaning people of Taiwan, are not real mainland Chinese
and have no idea how to govern mainland China. The Falun Gong is
a religious group and not a government in waiting or exile. Perhaps
the biggest difficulty for China so far in the twentieth-first century is
that the Chinese Communists win through simple default, for want
of a better or more viable alternative.
But this will not always be the case. The Chinese writer Lin Yutang
once wrote during the height of the Cold War in 1966 that “The
Chinese people have always outlived their tyrants” (Lin 1966, opposite
xvi). The twenty-first century in China will be interesting.
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