““The limits of Mao’s system have just about been reached. Party cadres say they want the benefits of the Internet, but they also want to be able to censor it. They say they want to be a technological leader of this century, but they restrict innovation. They say they want a modern society, but they cannot relinquish their hold. Those who rule from Beijing want the benefits of change, but they do not want change itself.””
![“Mao Zedong himself would have realized that the Communist Party has become weak. “All reactionaries are paper tigers,” he said. And Mao said something else: repression breeds revolution. “[T]he Chinese,” he told us, “never submit to tyrannical rule but invariably use revolutionary means to…” quote by Gordon G. Chang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/987/gordon-g-chang-10335_revolution_mao-zedong-himself-would-have-realized-t_682332.jpg)
