manqiangrexue
Brigadier
This is an analytical mistake on your part. You took the examples of the worst because they became famous for how terrible they are, and you tried to extrapolate about the population (being all Chinese officials) based on their actions. You literally picked fugitives, criminals, public enemies of the CCP to represent the CCP; that's foolish! That's like concluding that American tech agents are all traitors to the US because of Edward Snowden, who is a fugitive of the US! You will always fail when analyzing this way because it bypasses the silent majority in favor of the extreme. For example, how tall are Americans? Well, they have the best basketball teams in the world and players approaching 7 feet tall are everywhere so American people must be the tallest or at least among the tallest populations worldwide, right? No. American height is much more average than an analysis of its basketball team (the extreme) would lead you to believe. Actually, the tallest populations in the world are in the Dinaric Alps, and their height is in their silent majority.I understand your point that winning to geopolitical competition should be the priority for Chinese citizens (and HKers, who are also ethnic Chinese and protected by Beijing). However, do most CCP officials REALLY care about winning for China, or do they see everything as a game to enhance their own family wealth? Think about Ling Jihua, who defected to the CIA for losing a political struggle in China. He now happily lives in the U.S. with his cronies. So many more CCP officials have their mansions overseas and married their sons and daughters to well-connected foreigners. They are doing so just in case if they lose their power and privileges as a result of power struggles, their children and wives could still hold onto their illicit wealth overseas (and most importantly, switch side to support anti-China forces for survival). In fact, ever since Zhou Yongkang was arrested, his daughter in law all of a sudden started talking about freedom and waving American flag (she became a naturalized U.S. citizen when Zhou was in power). In other words, while CCP officials prevent Chinese citizens (like you) from speaking their minds about various way to improve the country's governance and legal system, the same officials are taking advantage of the West's open economy and political system not to enhance China's power, but the material interests of their own family and clan members. They just happen to use the PRC Party-State system as a platform to cover up their dirty works and real intentions. I am NOT calling for overthrowing the CCP (because I am afraid of chaos, too), but at least citizens (like you) should have a voice in how your country is run and be able to hold corrupt cronies accountable without retributions. In other words, if your leaders don't really care about winning for you and could be a potential traitor (on part with HK pro-independence individuals, but a lot wealthier), why should you bother to obey them? As Trump accuses Washington of being dominated by a corrupt, unpatriotic internationalist elite, I think the same accusation should actually be applied to the CCP.
Instead, look at big trends. China, under the CCP, rises faster than any other country in the world, including India, with a similar population but democratic government. This is big data evidence that the CCP serves China extremely well. Although it does not specify intent, the result is irrefutable, and the result to the development of the country is what matters. I'm not concerned at all about MY voice, MY interests, ME this or ME that; I'm not that selfish. I'm just fine and dandy; I'm a law abiding citizen with simple desires whose lifestyle would be unrestricted in virtually any government in the world. All I want is to see my country rise.
That said, what is your point? You keep using your mistaken analysis as evidence for how terrible the CCP is but then you say that you don't want them overthrown, and then you ask why should we obey them? What the hell does that mean? This is just nonsense complaining. What are you advocating should be done for a Chinese person to support his.her country?
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