The Republic of China: Taiwan is an Independent Nation

[YOhio]

This is probably nonsense. But maybe not. China hasn’t had a good internal roustabout in a while so maybe they're due. We’re tired of carrying the load.

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[Clark Addison]

YOhio posted about the recent purge. I thought this WSJ was a decent overview of what's going on. Interesting that Xi was apparently influenced by the Prigozhin/Wagner coup attempt.

Gift link so hopefully anyone can access.

https://www.wsj.com/world/china/xi-p...hare_permalink

[Bo Diddley]

YOhio posted about the recent purge. I thought this WSJ was a decent overview of what's going on. Interesting that Xi was apparently influenced by the Prigozhin/Wagner coup attempt.

Gift link so hopefully anyone can access.

https://www.wsj.com/world/china/xi-p...hare_permalink

Thanks for posting that. I think the last two paragraphs might be the simplest explanation of why.

By 1970, Lin had become what many party insiders then called a “second center” of power. Mao grew paranoid that the military’s devotion to Lin was eclipsing its loyalty to him. That tension reached a breaking point in September 1971, when Lin allegedly attempted a botched coup before dying in a mysterious plane crash in the Mongolian desert while fleeing to the Soviet Union.

The downfall of both Lin and Zhang reflects a recurring pattern in Chinese communist history in which the person closest to the leader becomes the primary target of his suspicion.

[Pelado]

Thanks for posting that. I think the last two paragraphs might be the simplest explanation of why.

Sounds somewhat like the fratricide that would occur among royal families.