http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2012/11/princelings-hold-sway-now-but-what-of-2017/ Watching China Politics from Cyberspace Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:10:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2012/11/princelings-hold-sway-now-but-what-of-2017/#comment-60136 Will Tue, 27 Nov 2012 14:31:20 +0000 http://chinadigitaltimes.net/?p=147202#comment-60136 Indeed, the chief goal of the Party elite is to maintain one-party dictatorship, and to keep a death grip on rampant censorship of the internet and media, stifle the freedom of speech in a myriad ways, and keep spending more tax money on internal security or “stability maintenance” even than on the military with its annual double-digit spending hikes. This is a recipe for more authoritarian police-state suppression of dissenting voices.

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