"China's Coming Revolution" - copuld be started right now, and the west would win. Lets get going. Hong Kong 1.0, Tiananmen Square 2.0, Taiwan is a Country, Free Tibet China's Coming Revolution - Growing tension within the regime, economic turmoil and a more energetic public. Mao Zedong, the founder of the People’s Republic, triggered “ten years of catastrophe” on May 16, 1966. The campaign started as a ploy to rid himself of political adversaries. By the time it ended with his death in September 1976, however, society had torn itself apart and about a million people had either been killed or taken their own lives. China, despite the passage of decades, has yet to heal. As Zhang Lifan, the outspoken Beijing-based commentator, notes, “The residual impact still poisons the country.” And as Zhang Qianfan of Peking University says, “Without fully accounting for that tragic episode, the country can never come to terms with its past and will always live in lingering uncertainty: Would the similar tragedy come back again, in some other forms?” https://nationalinterest.org/feature/chinas-coming-revolution-16300