Like a nod to history, former president Jiang Zemin disappears as China shakes itself up in an unprecedented way.
Scalded by the fever of Tiananmen, Jiang had later invited to
"kill in the bud"
all the factors of dispute.
From the top of his red throne, Xi Jinping no doubt has in mind the words of this “former”, who is also much more open than him.
The Chinese communist leaders may try to level it, they know their history.
They know that, in Greater China, everything can get out of hand and take on an uncontrollable scale.
That small rebellious springs have sometimes made great revolutionary rivers.
This is why the masters of the country strike so hard and fast on any citizen who moves.
Their obsession is that of a horizontal convergence of struggles.
That the protest against an environmental scandal or the corruption of a local potentate - today the crazy "zero Covid" strategy - does not spread from one province to another, whether we pass…
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