If you ask most (Han) Chinese, the thing they prize the most is stability.
Nearly every change in political system, or power struggle, has resulted in the deaths of tens of millions of Chinese for the past two centuries. The current post-Deng CPC model, for all its faults, does have peaceful transitions of power.
It remains to be seen whether or not today's wealthier China would also consider economic stability to be just as important.
Hu Jintao was never jailed and the anti-corruption campaign wasn't so much targeting his supporters, but instead people Hu couldn't afford to get rid of, such as former security minister Zhou Yongkang. No one received worse punishment than a prison sentence, so even if you count the anti-corruption campaign as part of the power transition, it was still a peaceful one.
> Nearly every change in political system, or power struggle, has resulted in the deaths of tens of millions of Chinese for the past two centuries. The current post-Deng CPC model, for all its faults, does have peaceful transitions of power.
Regime changes have been almost always bloody. That is true everywhere in the world. Chinese has over 2000 years of history to prove that point.
That statement is ironically correct under most context of Chinese culture. The definition of “freedom” for common Chinese is just like that and few points a finger
Nearly every change in political system, or power struggle, has resulted in the deaths of tens of millions of Chinese for the past two centuries. The current post-Deng CPC model, for all its faults, does have peaceful transitions of power.
It remains to be seen whether or not today's wealthier China would also consider economic stability to be just as important.