Re: China: Mandate of heaven?

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> It was Mencius during the classical period of ancient China,
> who advanced that salient political concept of the Con****ian
> school, mandate of heaven. as the moral force for retraining
> the imperial power of the Middle Kingdom's monarchs.
>
> Calamities were deemed expressions of divine displeasure.
>
> And, it was the duty of the imperial astrologer to interpret
> and reveal the divine narrative. The ruler must find ways to
> placate the divine fury by redressing injustices perpetrated
> against the people. He was answerable to a higher power, and
> must rule in accordance with Dao: $BXfG70J<#B'5H!$XfG70JP,B'6'(B
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> CCP must take heed ....

Lproudman:

> The CPC today is most popular and respected. Yet its leaders still
> fear the people.
> 
> The Bush administration is most unpopular and yet it does not fear the
> people. And continue to profit from the high oil price.
> 
> Who would you prefer to live under ?

A griping dilemma indeed ....

Given the above agonizing options, this humble netter in the
end must hold his noise and choose the latter. For while the
gentleman from Texas is undoubtedly odious, he is bounded by
the term limit provision of the US Constitution on one hand,
and is forced by it to face the people every four years.

To seek the mandate to govern ....

Regards,

Albert K. Fung
Casa Tres Palmas, Santa Ynez, California, USA.
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