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A revolution would be the worse thing to happen. People hail the fall of the Soviet Union like it was a wonderful step forward, but it was probably one of the worse outcomes. You guys who wax poetic about some romantic notion of the corrupt tyrannical regime falling under a sea of flowers, presuming you do not prefer a sea of blood, and people in China like Liu Xiabo who feed into that with their empty demands and anti-Chinese rhetoric only make the chances of that sea of blood higher.
You presume that I know nothing about Chinese history. Not only am I very familiar with the Tang Dynasty onward, I have lived in China and I speak the language. Every transitional era in Chinese history has been paid for with the blood of millions. I am in no way suggesting that a future revolution would happen under a "sea of flowers"; I think the Chinese people are well aware that if they want democracy, it is not going to be an easy battle. They are accepting the status quo right now because the Communists are providing development and prosperity. The second that goes away, there will be widescale rebellion. There are already riots in the countryside now in epic proportions because the poor are getting extremely poor, and are not being made part of the new prosperity seen in the cities.
The only thing keeping the Communists in power right now is a relatively stable and growing middle class. If that ever ends, the regime is doomed.