Focus Taiwan
Date: 2015/08/30
By: Chang Chu-ling & Bear Lee

Taipei, Aug. 30 (CNA) An exiled Chinese dissident questioned Sunday the ability of China’s communist government to survive for another eight years.

“Many countries like England, France, Germany and Russia, transformed themselves into a republic system after experiencing tens of years of dictatorship rule,” said Xin Haonian (辛灝年), founder of the council for restoring the Republic (of China) on the mainland, in a speech in Taipei.

For example, Russia went through 74 years of totalitarian rule between 1917 when the Russian Empire was overthrown in the February Revolution and the collapse of the former Soviet Union in 1991, “thus I would say that there is still a question of whether the CPC-controlled China, which has existed for over 66 years, can sustain itself for eight more years.”     [FULL  STORY]