In absolute terms, if you look at situations around the world, there are many societies - and I would name somewhere like Colombia as being an obvious example - where it's clear that the relationship between the state and rural society is in terminal freefall. China is a very long way from being in that state, partly because the government itself is much stronger. |
In absolute terms, if you look at situations around the world, there are many societies -- and I would name somewhere like Colombia as being an obvious example -- where it's clear that the relationship between the state and rural society is in terminal freefall. China is a very long way from being in that state, partly because the government itself is much stronger. |
The main problem being of course that in a country as large as China, this is an extremely expensive undertaking, so they have set themselves a very big task. |