标题: BBC评论：中国潜规则 [打印本页] 作者: xblues 时间: 25-11-2008 21:58
提示: 作者被禁止或删除, 无法发言标题: BBC评论：中国潜规则 by James Reynolds (BBC News)Youwon't find it written down anywhere. The government would deny that itexists. But it's one of the first things that you learn about when youget to China. Everyone here understands it. And it helps to explain whythe Communist Party has been able to stay in power.
It's The Deal - sometimes known as The Bargain or the Pact.
The Deal is an unspoken agreement between the Chinese government andits people. It was reached in the aftermath of the crushing of theTiananmen Square student protests in 1989. It goes like this: thepeople leave the politics to the government; in return the governmentmakes the people rich.
A crude way of looking at it is that the Communist Party has simplybought off its people with money and jobs. But there's more to it thanthat. For more than a century, until the late 1970s, China lived inalmost constant chaos: a collapsing empire, foreign invasion andoccupation, civil war, famine (any Chinese person over 35 can stillremember some of those years). Many people here want a break from theanarchy they once knew. So, a more accurate way of seeing The Deal isthis: everyone has agreed to leave behind years of chaos by focusingall of their efforts on the economy. Getting rich feels better thanbeing hungry and anarchic.
For years, The Deal has governed how life works in China. Today'sstudents haven't protested like their predecessors a generation agopartly because there have always been enough jobs for them when theygraduate (and partly because they know that demonstrations end badly).Workers and farmers haven't risen up in mass revolt because the Party'sgiven them the chance to escape from poverty. In other words, if youkeep quiet and put your faith in the system, you can get a good life.
In recent years, there have been thousands of small-scale protests.But these demonstrations (or "incidents" as the government calls them)have been about localised issues (eg officials in a certain villagehave stolen money, or migrant workers on a specific project haven'tbeen paid). Until now, there's been no one single issue for people toprotest about.
But now, the world's financial crisis has hit China. As I wrote last week,many Chinese companies which export goods to the West have had to shutdown. Migrant workers who left their villages to get jobs are nowhaving to go back home to nothing. We've been getting word of more andmore protests in different parts of the country. The government admitsthat the unemployment situation is "grim."
If hundreds of millions of farmers and migrant workers no longerfeel that the government can give them a better life, the governmentruns into trouble.
Here's the thought that may keep China's leaders awake at night: No Jobs, No Deal.作者: harry109 时间: 25-11-2008 22:22
有中文的吗?作者: nicole_zjy 时间: 25-11-2008 23:22
No Jobs, No Deal. 没有工作就吃不上饭了， 那还能安生么？？？作者: Tux 时间: 26-11-2008 10:50
format出了点问题，导致看起来有点吃力，要拆词。作者: naughtybaby 时间: 26-11-2008 12:47
No jobs, no deal?
It is exactly the situation, tho at the meantime, it is also the UNIVERSAL rule, even if in Britain, regardless of any govs.作者: binor 时间: 27-11-2008 15:34
看来老外还是不懂中国啊！
除非要饿死了，中国人是不会起义的，也团结不起来。作者: 奶油香芋 时间: 28-11-2008 17:49
No jobs no deal,没什么奇怪啊，哪里都一样，不能提供工作机会何富裕生活的政党是没人要的，美国、英国都一样作者: bz4dfi 时间: 28-11-2008 19:16
老外骨子里觉得中国应该是落后的，最好你们总是内乱， 想怎么收拾你就怎么收拾你，想想八国联军的年代就明白了，落后注定挨打，为什么美，英，法到现在没有一个国家归还抢去的国宝，中国还不够强大啊
在发展的过程确实有很多的腐败，各种交易，交易的背后难道没有美国及其他西方国家利益的渗透吗？ 这是一个博弈的过程。。。作者: someonehappy 时间: 3-12-2008 13:32
OK, the question is, who is able to say, he can give China, or Chinese people a better life, especially under this kind of situation(the world's financial crisis )? And if there is such a person/party saying this, how could you trust him/it? What will make you believe in him/it? And how do you know he/it will not bring some new problems to this country? No one knows.
I'm not saying what the article talks about is incorrect. Actually, what it talks about is a fact, but it's only a fact, and it's the fact that I think all Chinese already know. That's it. It doesn't supply a solution, not even a hint.
Talking about the solution, I think we should never depend on other countries, this will just make things worse, that is for sure. Other than this, we need a revolution? Or just some imporvements? Or anything else? I don't know. What I know is, at this time, I don't like to see my homeland become a battle field again.
