China

true that individuals are allowed to own the means of production but under very strict government guidelines, corruption etc I suppose Chairman Mao's hope of a chinese form of 'communism' came true in some ways.

You're referring to China's political system, not its economic system. China is not communist; the fact is that individuals are allowed to own the means of production.

Ive been trying to figure out if China is SOCIALIST or capatlist for the past year. I still not sure. People are allowed some liberties, but no matter how you look at it, it all eventually leads back to the government.

For example: real estate. Yes you can buy your own home, you can buy lots of homes. People make fortunes from real estate in China, but if you want to start from the ground up and say, buy a plot of land and build a 50 story building on it with 500 living areas- YOU CANT. You can only buy a single space once the building is complete. You can only buy the land if you are one of a very few government backed and yet somehow independent coorperations. Most of housing in China is built by one of several real estate companies.

The government is also constantly creating/ending regulations that limit/control influence the market. They dont seem to really know what they are doing and keep trying out certain polcies to keep up the whole 'communal' thing going.

How is this different from the EU?

I dont know, Ive never lived in the EU?

Any prospective war of any kind between China and the USA would be much more likely to be inspired by china. As with the current arguments with Japan about WWII and Chinese history the chinese government would much prefer it if the Chinese people hate and blame foreigners for past crimes rather than the Chinese government for more recent and more serious ones. A serious internal problem- a collapse of the Three Dams project or an ecological disaster, say- could trigger a chinese invasion of Taiwan, or border regions as a distraction.

-The Cultural Revolution was the fault of one man who tried to flee China to Mongolia in a plane, to avoid punishment. Mao and Deng and others who had ruled China for over a decade knew nothing of the Cultural Revolution or they would of stopped it.

-"How can Japan move forward if they continue to lie about thier own history" is a question that is talked about on television everyday.

Propoganda is everywhere here and it is amazing how effective it is. The Chinese will believe everything their government tells them. They really believe that they are the most honest, peaceful, and flawless country on earth. They are all unaware of any of China's occupations/ invasions throughout the years.

What do you think the Chinese government's gonna do this year to divert the public's attention from it? Throw some obscure official party or festivity far away from Tiananmen Square or something?

Tiananmen Square was a terrible thing, but it does not fairly reflect modern day China. It's now become a convenient excuse for the US to pressure the EU to keep the arms embargo.

China is not what it was in 1989, anyone who has lived there can tell you that.

I understand that country at the moment may seem a joke, because I ve been there.

The government often still tries to cover up many things that it regard as "shameful". The most evident coverup was the SARS, when they denied the seriousness of the epidemic until it was too late. Mainland media were not allowed to publicise any of the information they have…

One of the HK newspapers, Ming Pao, eventually had to close its business, and there were very convincing rumours that it was forced to bankrupcy by the Chinese government because it was the most "exposing" papers, publishing many of the scandels that the Chinee government tried to hide.

Protests are still not allowed, and the most recent protest was "allowed", in fact "encouraged" because it was a protest against the Japanese government for denying the truth of the Nanjing Massacre.

The election of our Chief Executive is merely an "act" of pretentious democracy, because the CE is always appointed by the Chinese government in the first place even though they deny that … and the citizens are not allowed to vote.

The number of mainland people allowed to migrate in HK is at a ridiculously high level, esp. the majority of them have no professional skills and they don't even bother finding their own jobs, but only feed off our tax money.

And the education system is getting into a greater and greater mess. First, they tried to enforce the "mother tongue" system … huge academic gap between the Band 1 (good) and Band 3 (worst). Everyone knows its a desperate attempt to lower the standards in HK so the education in China can catch up / overtake HK, and to make it easier for the mainland immigrants to adapt because of their poor English, which now often force a Primary 6 student in China to attend Primary 3 in HK.

China has developed a lot financially, yet their social and political aspects are still rather conservative and behind compared to other countries, and their influence on the HK goverment is often resented by most of the HK citizens.