There Is Simply No Reason to Preserve a Communist State

None:

The Chinese Communist Party plans Tuesday to put on the largest military parade in the 70-year history of the People’s Republic of China, wheeling out new hardware designed to show the country’s advances under the leadership of Xi Jinping.

The party is marking the 70th anniversary of its establishment of the state, an important milestone because the PRC has now outlasted the Soviet Union, which endured for 69 years.

This "glorious" Chinese state:

Hong Kong protesters planned a fresh round of disruption on Wednesday after violent clashes led police to shoot a demonstrator for the first time since the unrest began in June.

Simultaneous rallies against Beijing’s increasing grip raged across the financial hub on Tuesday hours after President Xi Jinping oversaw celebrations marking 70 years of Communist rule in China. Cable TV reported that the man shot in Hong Kong had the bullet removed in operation and is expected to survive even though he remains in critical condition.

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Myriad other abuses of the Chinese people by the party-state have occurred, including:

• A World Bank study concluded that pollution in China was causing about 750,000 preventable deaths a year. Greenhouse gases from industrial coal-burning across the country wreak environmental havoc well beyond its borders. Nearly half a billion Chinese citizens cannot access safe drinking water.
• Bloomberg News reported that the highest echelons of the Communist Party have amassed unimaginable wealth and that in 2012 Xi Jinping’s family alone was ‘’worth’’ several hundred million dollars.
• Over two decades, the regime has been directing a vast network organ-harvesting from prisoners of conscience — primarily Falun Gong –– since 2001, but also from Tibetans, Christians and Muslim Uyghurs. By some estimates, two million Uyghurs confined to camps have all been blood-tested, as is necessary for organ transplant purposes.

But that hasn't stopped the Communist Liberal Party sending their defense minister for some grade-A slobbering:

Canada’s defence minister has drawn criticism for his recent appearance at a reception in Vancouver during which he stood on stage alongside the Chinese consul-general.

The gala event Sept. 22 at a restaurant in Chinatown was organized by the Chinese Benevolent Association of Vancouver, an umbrella organization for dozens of business and cultural associations, to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China.

Besides Sajjan, other attendees included Tong Xiaoling, the Chinese consul-general in Vancouver, and her deputies, as well as Bruce Ralston, B.C.’s minister of jobs, trade and technology, and George Chow, the B.C. minister of state for trade.

Don't consider. Do:

  
“The discussion is in its preliminary stages and nothing has been decided, the source said. There’s also no time frame for their implementation, the source added. This discussion includes blocking all U.S. investment in Chinese companies, the source told CNBC. 

Restricting investments in Chinese entities would be meant to protect U.S. investors from excessive risk due to lack of regulatory supervision, the source said.”

How is that Singapore thing working out?:

North Korea fired a ballistic missile toward the sea Wednesday, South Korea's military said, in a display of its expanding military capabilities hours after saying it would resume nuclear diplomacy with the United States this weekend.

And I thought that they wanted to talk.




Sour grapes?:

In his first public comments since leaving the White House, John Bolton, the former national security adviser, delivered a stark warning Monday about President Donald Trump’s approach to North Korea, undercutting the president’s insistence that its leader, Kim Jong Un, wanted to make a denuclearization deal with him.

Without mentioning Trump by name, Bolton said he wanted to “speak in unvarnished terms about the threat posed by North Korea,” and made it clear that he thought the president’s outreach to Kim had benefited only one side. And while Trump has made a deal with Kim one of his signature foreign policy goals, Bolton asserted that there had been no gains with his approach.

“The strategic decision Kim Jong Un is operating through is that he will do whatever he can to keep a deliverable nuclear weapons capability and to develop and enhance it further,” Bolton said during an appearance at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. “Under current circumstances, he will never give up the nuclear weapons voluntarily.”

How true that it is.

Kim benefits himself and only himself.