The
first blasts in Tianjin came exactly 1,000 days since Mr. Xi became
general secretary of the Communist Party Central Committee, the day he
ascended to the pinnacle of Chinese power. Some seized on the series of
explosions as a symbol of “his imminent downfall, which took the blast
victims as his burial sacrifices,” said Rose Tang, one of the leader of
the student protests at Tiananmen Square in 1989, and now a biting
critic of the Chinese regime.
“Such blasts and accidents are inevitable because of the corruption and absence of rule of law and democracy.”
The
Communist Party of China has long held a grand bargain with its people
that allowed the party to ruthlessly maintain power in exchange for
providing an ever-improving standard of life.
But
waning growth – its effects keenly felt, particularly as house prices
falter – has raised scrutiny, and public criticism, of the ways life has
also degraded.
With “this sort of
man-made enormous tragedy, combined with China’s slowing economy and the
increasing revelations of extreme corruption of Party and military
leaders, people may start to question whether the existing political
institutions are really good enough for China,” said Charles Burton, an
associate professor of political science at Brock University who
specializes in China.
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