Miscellaneous

So much for the Chinese being docile workers, as there are more signs of unrest there.

Did anybody really think they'd sit and take the exploitation?

The working class is far larger and more concentrated than in 1989. Foreign capital has poured into the country over the past two decades because investors took the Tiananmen Square massacre as a sign that Beijing would do whatever was necessary to discipline workers. Since then, another 200 million peasants have been transformed into wage workers. Moreover, the social position of peasantry, on which the CCP has traditionally rested, has deteriorated dramatically. There is no reason to believe that the rural poor will sit passively by as urban workers protested—as happened in 1989.

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The VHS is about to go the way of the eight-track tape or cassette tape in gradually becoming obsolete.
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