Chapter 9. China’s Wars from Within—The Dragon Comes Apart at the Seams
China is at the crossroads. It can either smoothly evolve into a medium-level developed country or it can spiral into stagnation and chaos. | ||
| --Lu Xueyi, Director of Sociology | ||
Chinese Academy of Social Sciences[1] A single spark can start a prairie fire. | ||
| --Mao Zedong | ||
The single spark of Mao’s day is now replaced by a cascade of fireballs. Economic reforms and industry privatization in China have created a “reserve army of the unemployed” numbering more than 100 million. The Chinese countryside has become both a slave-labor camp and a dumping ground for every imaginable air and water pollutant, while the rural peasantry is being sucked dry by government tax collectors. This ...
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