PRC citizens deliberately accessing Taiwanese media (social media, news sites, etc)

o Urban middle class > wheres the rural area?

o Hot discussions about Taiwans democratic experience
Taiwan playing only a small role in fostering cross-Straight enagagement
o More mainland Chinas efforts (but why??)
KMT and CCP both have political parallels
o Both were conceived with similar goals, also both following the Leninist
configuration (clandestine, vanguard-led, mass-based presumably)
o CCP has much to learn from KMTs transition to democracy, as well as its loss of
the single-party rule in Taiwan after the 2000 elections.
Declining omnipresence of CCP over the grassroots, with the proliferation of grassroots
NGOs that refuse to comply to the difficult registration imposed by the party
Taiwans soft power of democracy; there will always be a fascination on the side of
people from mainland China, regardless of the actions that CCP might undertake in the
near future regarding democratization and the like

! KMT and CCP both succeeded in their ideological pursuits at the time when they first emerged
because of the prevailing societal conditions back thenagricultural setting, imperial monarchy
of China, led revolutions during their time (1911, 1949); as Yun-Han Chu discussed, its
becoming a challenge for China to contend with alternative sources of information aside from the
official organs, and the rise of the demand-driven mass media; while CCPs information and
media censorship works for now, the people still have an idea of whats out there, and people ask
about it. ((Socioeconomic developments also encourage and embolden certain people to ask
about accountability, representation, and participation))
In the advent of technology and different forms of media (mass, social, etc.), the old tradition (?)
of removing someone mouthy from the equation is a bigger challenge, because social media
now serves as an avenue for people not just from Chinese societies but also around the world to
call out injustices etc.

China least susceptible to sway of US or other industrialized democracies; democratic

recession