i see the point about Confucianism teaching people to be obedient to authority.
but wouldn't the internet change the perspectives of at least the urban Chinese (you know, the one's who have internet)?
i mean, these people are not cut out from the outside world like the older generations were, they see how people live in other countries where freedom is abundant (well at least when compared with China).
is there really no chance these people will gang up on their dictators?
with the sheer amount of people they have they could simply march on Beijing and throw those communist party tyrants from their collars into a jail cell.
They don't see the CPC as dictators and just because we value (sometimes) freedom of speech doesn't mean they want to die for it.
Do you think Chinese people live in a bottle? No, they know what democracy is. They just don't care enough, for a variety of reasons, including culture, current welfare, traditional values, party propaganda etc.
Everybody knows the principles of democracy, and communism, in relatively prosperous countries. Much like communist thought spreading in the West did not incite revolutions in well-to-do Western countries, it's unrealistic to expect just the knowledge that Americans sometimes value freedom of speech and choosing between two dummy candidates and interchangeable parties to cause a revolt in China. If the communist party makes it miserable to live there then it will happen, basically.