{"id":252,"date":"2003-05-08T15:11:00","date_gmt":"2003-05-08T15:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=252"},"modified":"2003-05-08T15:11:00","modified_gmt":"2003-05-08T15:11:00","slug":"252","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=252","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>PERMANENT EVOLUTION<\/b><br \/>\n<br \/><b>Jinghao Zhou<\/b>writing on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inthenationalinterest.com\/index.html\">In The National Interest <\/a>websitehas Four Observations on how the market is transforming Communist China.<\/p>\n<p>This is a key change. The shift from a totalitarian society in fact under Mao ZeDong to a nominal totalitarian but in practice merely authoritarian society under Deng Xiaoping has brought China to a crossroads. To go backward is to risk the economic growth that keeps both social peace and legitimizes the rule of the CCP in the eyes of the populace; to go forward much further is to build a middle-class that will eventually, as in South Korea and Taiwan, demand and win multiparty democracy and overthrow the system erected in 1949.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PERMANENT EVOLUTION Jinghao Zhouwriting on the In The National Interest websitehas Four Observations on how the market is transforming Communist China. This is a key change. The shift from a totalitarian society in fact under Mao ZeDong to a nominal totalitarian but in practice merely authoritarian society under Deng Xiaoping has brought China to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}