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I studied in China the year before the Tiananmen massacre. The event convinced me that the 1949 revolution had only really changed things on the surface-the attitude of the Chinese government to its people remained and remains aloof. There are small riots every month somewhere in China mostly about corruption. I hear that there is one informer for every 100 citizens-easy to keep a country in intellectual lockdown with that many snitches. They've had good results with supplying the populace with bread and circuses as well. It's worked well in the US too.

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