Springtime is the season for predicting the imminent demise of the Communist party of China. It’s like pollen: just as spring brings allergens, so it brings China’s annual parliamentary sessions. And the west is so allergic to that display of putative parliamentarianism that some pundit always ends up predicting it will all end in tears.Authoritarianism with Chinese characteristics cannot endure, we are told; the endgame has begun.
每到春天,專家們總愛發表中共即將滅亡的預言。這種預言就好像花粉一樣:春天花粉滿天飛,使一些人產生過敏;而中國也在這種預言的包圍下,召開一年一度的“兩會”。西方對這場走過場的議會制大戲嚴重過敏,于是總有一些專家預言其將以悲劇收場。他們告訴我們,中國特色的威權制度無法長久;游戲已進入終局。
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