http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2012/10/netease-news-calls-out-global-times/ Watching China Politics from Cyberspace Sun, 19 May 2013 00:29:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2012/10/netease-news-calls-out-global-times/#comment-59842 Will Thu, 18 Oct 2012 17:34:05 +0000 http://chinadigitaltimes.net/?p=144744#comment-59842 Indeed, the Party-state depends more on untold millions of cynical fence-sitters in the populace to maintain the autocratic system than it depends on the fervent support of a relatively small number of avid advocates of one-party authoritarian rule. Qiángtóu cao is the very opposite of a “poisonous weed”–it is the Party’s favorite weed hands down, for it bends to whatever wind the higher-ups in the Party may be blowing.

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