As long as you have a cursory knowledge of what is happening in the world today, you know that Egygt's three-decade long rule has been toppled. The question that I will adress today is if the Chinese will take up "arms" and try to rebel. I personally believe the answer is NO, and here are my reasons why...
1. China's government is far to centralized for there to be an upheaveal. By this I mean that certain entities within the government such as the Propaganda department and the Chinese Communist Party have the power. Unlike Egpyt, if you take down Chinese president Hu Jinto, you will still have to contend with the Communist party and various other governmental entitities.
2.The People's Liberation Army (PLA) is the next issue. The PLA currently has around 2.3 million active units, though a large amount of them are pencil pushers, it is highly unlikely that the citizins would be able to muster enough military might to take down the PLA. The biggest issue with the PLA is the fact that it is controlled by the government. The Chinese Communist Party has gone leaps and bounds to ensure that the military will not turn against them.
3. The Chinese people have seen the results of revolt, and they are not positive. In 1989 a incident known as the Tiananmen Square occured. The incident was a protest against the communist party, but the PLA violently put it down, and continue, to this day, hunting people down whom particpated in it. A recent example of this is Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo who was arrested and placed in jail for 11 years.
Here is a youtube video further explaining the tiananmen square incident.
Though a revolution is highly unlikely right now, there are other ways to help.
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