International Herald Tribune writes of a
Religious Upsurge in the People's Republic of China
A resurgence of traditional values might help to balance out their society, but it could also pose a long-term threat to the authoritarian power of a state which likes to project itself as absolute. How local traditional faiths coexist with ones from abroad remains to be seen.
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I do not subscribe any positive interpretation to this fondness for religion on part of the Chinese people.
The overwhelmingly consistent point about the Chinese people throughout their long history has not been their transcendental quest - it has been power. The acquisition of power. The wielding of power and the determined effort to make others subservient to the "Middle Kingdom". This and not the Buddha is their defining element.
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