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They are hoping for the same in Russia with Putin as well. If Putin was gone, everything would be better , blah blah blah. Frankly they are hoping for this to happen to any leader that does not submit to US hegemony. "Please just go away so we can keep maintaining our global hegemony without interference! Remember , our way is the best and only way to run things."
These analysts (really imperialist ideologues/regime apparatchiks) have been totally brainwashed to believe their own lies, misconception and propaganda. The really sad part is that their lies keep getting fueled and maintained by their own propaganda and the propaganda of their fundamentalist colleagues. Of course their innate arrogance and ignorance play a decisive role in making them immune to common sense and reasoning beyond the level of a regime apparatchik. Their continued spewing of mental diarrhea in turn feeds the propaganda machine and so the cycle continues on and on towards even greater delusions and potentially catastrophic miscalculations.
CRRC does more than trains...good to see another another competitor to BYD electric buses.
PARIS, Sept. 20 (Xinhua) -- A 12-meter-long self-driving bus made by China's CRRC Electric Vehicle went on trial run on open road in Paris over the weekend.
The vehicle cleared a six-kilometer section along a bus route in southeast Paris on Friday. In about 40 minutes, it passed 26 traffic lights and ten bus stops.
The bus is scheduled to start regular passenger services in autumn next year.
Benjamin Joliviere, head of the autonomous bus project of RATP, the French capital's mass transit operator, said the results of the trial were "more than positive." It was the first time in France that a self-driving bus ran on a regular bus route, he said.
Francois Yann, RATP bus driver, sat in the driver's seat during the trial.
"Once we have done the training and have seen the vehicle in operation, we see the performance is actually quite reassuring," he said. "It feels like a technology we were dreaming about when we were kids. And now it happens ..."
This bus features real-time interaction of information about people, vehicle and road conditions, ensuring safety and improving driving efficiency, according to Peng Zhichuan, director of the automation technology at CRRC Electric Vehicle.
"The Chinese technology has been adapted to the French market in collaboration with our company and RATP," said Christelle Tang, president of Clement Bayard, the French company that imports the bus into France.
PARIS, Sept. 20 (Xinhua) -- A 12-meter-long self-driving bus made by China's CRRC Electric Vehicle went on trial run on open road in Paris over the weekend.
The vehicle cleared a six-kilometer section along a bus route in southeast Paris on Friday. In about 40 minutes, it passed 26 traffic lights and ten bus stops.
The bus is scheduled to start regular passenger services in autumn next year.
Benjamin Joliviere, head of the autonomous bus project of RATP, the French capital's mass transit operator, said the results of the trial were "more than positive." It was the first time in France that a self-driving bus ran on a regular bus route, he said.
Francois Yann, RATP bus driver, sat in the driver's seat during the trial.
"Once we have done the training and have seen the vehicle in operation, we see the performance is actually quite reassuring," he said. "It feels like a technology we were dreaming about when we were kids. And now it happens ..."
This bus features real-time interaction of information about people, vehicle and road conditions, ensuring safety and improving driving efficiency, according to Peng Zhichuan, director of the automation technology at CRRC Electric Vehicle.
"The Chinese technology has been adapted to the French market in collaboration with our company and RATP," said Christelle Tang, president of Clement Bayard, the French company that imports the bus into France.
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Yeah, didn't they say Russia would be better if they got rid of the USSR? Look at them now.
People look dumbfounded as to why China became 'aggresive'. Haven't they heard of the 'Pivot to Asia', which began way before Xi's presidency? In fact, the US has been pissing China off even before China became more assertive. E.g Hainan Island Incident, U2s flying over mainland(Not ADIZ) etc.
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You mean there are no other strong Chinese leaders who can take over from Xi and lead China just as well as him ? what happens tomorrow if Xi gets a massive heart attack and dies ?
Democracies outlast autocracies because of succession and institutional strength .China had a working transition plan that was upended by Xi and in as much as I like his rule I know it works against the country in the long run .
The West has institutional depth and independence which is what China is up against .
China has more institutional depth than most people give it credit for. Even before Xi stepped into power, he's been grooming proteges and making allies all the way back to his days as Party Secretary of Zhejiang plotting for the top job in the party/country. It's gotten to the point where Xi's proteges have gone on to branch out and develop their own network, and these people have spent the past couple of years ascending to top jobs across the country with Xi's blessing.
Matter of fact is that the current Central Committee and Politburo are stacked with Xi's allies, which is something Hu Jintao and Jiang Zemin (heck even Deng himself) weren't able to accomplish during and after their reign. If something were to happen to Xi or if he shocks everyone and steps down next year, chances are likely that whoever succeeds Xi will be of similar mind and competency, and the Central Committee+Politburo as well as Party Elders such as Vice President Wang Qishan (regarded as a sort of a "king maker" in the party) and current Vice Premier Liu He will ensure that this will happen.
For example Wang Huning, the party Central Secretariat, is arguably even more red than Xi himself. China watchers that actually know a thing or two about the State/Party have pegged Xi proteges like Ding Xuexiang (Xi's chief of staff and right hand man), Chen Min'er (Chongqing Party Secretary, previously in charge of transforming Guizhou into a tech hub), and Li Xi (Guangdong Party Secretary, currently in charge of the Greater Bay Area macroeconomic project) as Xi's successor... and quite frankly they are all just as qualified and have continued to demonstrate their competency over decades to be considered for the top job. These names just don't get thrown around a lot because Western news sources either don't read/comprehend Chinese, and/or they only have a surface understanding of the Communist Party of China - I'd argue most don't have an understanding of the party or the country itself at all. Yes Xi has great leadership and political theory, but that still needs to be effectively executed by the people below.
Socialism with Chinese Characteristics is here to stay.
Then that's a problem for China to sort amongst itself and not for you (outsider) or any other non-Chinese countries to project, insist upon the kind of political succession it must have now is it?
The point I made on my previous post remains which is the notion that if only Xi didn't do X,Y,Z which is essentially enacting measures what's best for China then all this nascent conflict between the west would not only have been abated but never would have come to materialize. What arrogance and ignorant nonsense to make. China's core interests do not change regardless of who's it's political leader or even political system. A democratic China is no more amenable with respect to it's territory and claims in the South China Sea, the land border dispute with India, the Diyao Island dispute with the Japanese etc...As a matter of fact there's an even higher probability that if China were a Democracy an armed conflict would have already occurred against her neighbors since it's leader would be elected on the notion of nationalist sentiment not dissimilar from the Jai Hinds of India, the Nationalists in America, or even Nazi Germany to cite a few pertinent examples in history.
You talk about Democracy being resilient lol when you're only proud to cite what the U.S. and the usual western suspects of being prior colonial power. How about the Democracies of Granada, Panama, Mexico, Peru, Honduras, Argentina, the Philippines, hosts of African countries that most if not all suffered internal disruptions from military coup. I mean did Nazi Germany gained power through elections or did I misread that history?
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His PhD is not STEM; it is international relations. It's garbage. PhDs in non-STEM subjects are simply a conjunctive mess of how much you can bullshit within the box given to you and how much ass you can kiss. Where there is no wrong answer, you're wrong if your instructors don't like the way you think.
This is once again tied to the Western dream that China is incohesive and made of ambition-less people who would be happy to overthrow their own government and the future of the nation as a superpower for any temporary (and likely imaginary) comforts provided by foreigners. They want to believe that China is fragile and held together by a small ruling elite and thier task is only to defeat this isolated small group of people to undo all of China. It is their escape to hide from the realization that China is made by highly ambitious, nationalistic, and intelligent people who work hard with the Chinese leadership and want to see China at the top of the world. If they came to realize this, they would know that they cannot separate the Chinese people from its leadership. Who the leader is doesn't matter in terms of China's view of the West because every Chinese leader's goal is to advance Chinese national interests and eventually overtake the West economically, technologically, and militarily as per the mandate of the Chinese people; the only difference is competence level and how fast he can push these goals forward. If the West were to come to terms with this, they would be dejected to realize the massive force they actually face, so for as long as they can delay the revelation, ignorance is bliss.
Democracies are like Windows; easy to use, works reasonably well most of the time and no matter how incompetent or brilliant the user, the result is always dummed down towards the middle. Autocracy (or, more relevent to this discussion, China's system), is like Linux. An idiot trying to use it can get nothing done except wreck his own equipment, but a genius who can master it can operate the fastest, most efficient systems in the world like extensions of his own body with it. China's system is flexible and can adjust the terms of its leadership according to competence and support. The most hostile factions of the West howl that they want Xi out of office; that is every hint needed that he should remain and that the system, the most adaptive system, should be molded to allow him to do so because it is him, his ways, his competence, and his achievments that China's enemies fear.
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What happens tomorrow if Biden gets a massive heart attack and dies?
What does this sentence even mean? How have democracies "outlasted" autocracies?
The West has Donald Trump.
@crash8pilot bro great analysis, that is his legacy, to strengthen the party as the competition with the West intensify, laying the plans and direction with ONE VOICE. from my previous post sending cadre back to the countryside is one way of grooming future leaders. Also the West don't understand their adversarial attitude is a motivating factor in the party itself. I don't have the crystal ball to see the future but from what I seeing now with Xi focus on revitalizing the Party coinciding its program of COMPREHENSIVE NATIONAL POWER including society enhancement with traditional family values as its core. It's an alternative to the Western Values that the US is promoting.