It's their ultimate choice to be China again, once kingdom, always the kingdom.

But I am happy to see it happens, it's their opportunity to regain the power again, to balance the others. Even the virus and pollution won't dismiss their national regime toward their past, present, and future.

BTW, I am from Hong Kong, I respect two perspectives and double-facts (which always leads to endless debates).

I am Chinese and I can tell you in a TNG way:
We won't go back!The communism is gone,the capitalism is everywhere!

In my point of view,majority of Chinese population are not very well educated,and they actually don't understand what the communism is actually about.
Plus China has her unique cultural and social environment.

I would like to have a conversation with you

Greetings, I've actually made this pic in 2009! So... definitely some time has passed and i had chance to talk with other chinese furries (especially one in particular who exposed quite criticial views on the Chinese goverment, from a pure marxist view). I have come to consolidate a reasoning and political viewpoints that in anycase backs the official political stance and line of the China. It may be flawed and with capitalism allowed to spread freely, but it's still under the patronage of the goverment and the party and in any way it's an alternative form of what I completely abhor (the unleashed and uncontrolled capitalism "Made-in-USA" where it's the Economy that dictate the leadership of a country and not the way around). I pretty much come to think the same to any country that employ any different style of economy/political form different from the western-style "democracies".
Just i still would like to see some more "green policies" (something that if i recall Hu Jintao attempted) but with more reference to basic socialism and more political control of great capitalist companies that should still remain under the state's control (and i think there have been signals of this under Xi Jinping).

I saw many Western media saying that Xi is dictating,what do you think?

From view of a senior high student who wants to be a research scientist,I found that the economical structure of capitalism disturb the peace of scientific research.In the past,when we were more "socialism",researchers gain their salary from national funding,thus they don't have to worry about how many paper they have to publish each year,what kind of journals they have to put their work on.At that time research work was what it should be----a quest for insight.

Now after the Reform and opening up movement,research work in most part of China has become a pure commercial activity.Researchers began to fabricate and do studies that didn't make much scientific sense(eg:Shi Yigong,who is able to mass product paper published on Nature and Science with only Cryoelectron microscopes).Those who don't want to follow the trend,will perish for publishing too little.
I am thinking of studying in Europe,perhaps the environment there would be better.

And sorry for my poor English

Basically that he's a blood-thirsty baby-eater COMMUNIST dictator and boooh wooooh you must be scared of him. And that of course all Chinese people are either prone to rebelling or silently ready to bring down the "regime" and most of TV-talks just openly say what's the best way to weaponize Taiwan and how to agressively "contain" the red-danger.
This is the same exact agressive strategy that villanize any kind of goverment that's not a western-media "democracy" and what's utterly shocking to me it's how NATO and the USA openly insult/attack/send weapons to their puppets (either Ukraine, Israel or Taiwan) with only soft-words of replies from state enities like Russia or China. Like.... Putin keep saying that "he's ready to dialogue", doesn't make a mass-invasion Ukraine likely in hope to resume dialogue with the Europe later while it's unclear to him that Europe is ENTIRELY fed-up in anti-Russian/anti-communist (oh btw... Russian's Putin is also described as "Soviet Union in disguise") .

Capitalism per-se may boost the scientific research (I was a biologist as starting profession) but tends to exploit the discoveries and improvements only if they are useful for $$ rather than actually improving the status of people.

I would still say that despite the apparence and the difficulties to see it from within in China, you live in a country that can POTENTIALLY dictate and rule the economy and the capitalism as they wish in many mixed-forms that are more realistically useful than the 1920's collective farms system.
On the other hand the USA and the western democracies are completely subservant of the capitalism: they simply CANNOT make a law that change the rules or laws because the presidents themselves are elected by votes that respect the will of the great companies.

I know you're often at odds with Vietnam for historical and geographical reasons, but i found interesting that basically Vietnam adopted a similar system to China even if with more restriction to the industries and direct partecipation of the goverment in the main sectors of economy.
This is potentially something that the different leaderships of China (or other socialist-alligned countries like Cuba, Venezuela, Nepal, DPRK, Laos etc..) do or can do in future.

You can study in Europe of course, you will find a good environment but you will also face challanges because everything is costly and you either are super-skilled or smarter and crush tons of other competitors/rivals or you will fail to reach a good living.

I decided quickly enough to exploit one of the few state-linked working system and entered the teaching career for this reason. One of the few jobs that allow you a low-moderate (not high) income, but it's assured and none will take it away from me. Very rare in Europe or USA

What was your direction when working as a biologist?And how did it feels like?
PS:I am planning to do a double major on one life science(Most likely biochem or neuroscience) and chemistry.I attended our school team to prepare for a national biology competition and won a second-class award.I found macroscopic subjects like zoology and botany quite boring compared to biochem and cellular biology.