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<h3>''wěn dìng'' 稳腚</h3>

[[File:Stable bottom.jpg|250px|thumb|right|''The stable bottom of the government. (Artist: Thomas Y.C. Wong [https://twitter.com/thomasycwong @鳩鵪亞黃])'']]Homophone of "stability" (''wěndìng'' 稳定), a pretext for censorship and control. 

Starting with former president [https://chinadigitaltimes.net/china/hu-jintao/ Hu Jintao], the Communist Party has gone to great lengths to "[[stability maintenance|maintain stability]]" domestically. Using this rationale, protests are squelched, political dissidents controlled, and  media censored.

Netizens joke that the only thing "maintaining stability" are the seats of the leadership on the throne of power. "If you want social stability," a netizen once wrote, "officials can't have 'stable bottoms'" ([https://www.google.com/search?q=%E5%AE%98%E5%91%98%E7%A8%B3%E8%85%9A%E4%BA%86%EF%BC%8C%E7%A4%BE%E4%BC%9A%E5%B0%B1%E4%B8%8D%E7%A8%B3%E5%AE%9A%E4%BA%86%EF%BC%9B%E5%AE%98%E5%91%98%E4%B8%8D%E7%A8%B3%E8%85%9A%E4%BA%86%EF%BC%8C%E7%A4%BE%E4%BC%9A%E5%B0%B1%E7%A8%B3%E5%AE%9A%E4%BA%86&rlz=1C5CHFA_enUS695US695&oq=%E5%AE%98%E5%91%98%E7%A8%B3%E8%85%9A%E4%BA%86%EF%BC%8C%E7%A4%BE%E4%BC%9A%E5%B0%B1%E4%B8%8D%E7%A8%B3%E5%AE%9A%E4%BA%86%EF%BC%9B%E5%AE%98%E5%91%98%E4%B8%8D%E7%A8%B3%E8%85%9A%E4%BA%86%EF%BC%8C%E7%A4%BE%E4%BC%9A%E5%B0%B1%E7%A8%B3%E5%AE%9A%E4%BA%86&aqs=chrome..69i57.378j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#q=%E5%AE%98%E5%91%98%E4%B8%8D%E8%83%BD%E2%80%9C%E7%A8%B3%E8%85%9A%E2%80%9D 要想社会稳定，官员不能“稳腚”]).

Netizens play up the anatomical imagery, such as in this Weibo post:

<blockquote>''Xiangxianzhong001'' (@项先中001): [[Harmonious|harmony]], '''stable bottoms''' (May 1, 2016)</blockquote>

<blockquote>[[File:和谐稳腚.jpg|150px|thumb|center]]</blockquote>

<blockquote>和谐、'''稳腚''' ['''[http://weibo.com/2038582035/Dtv7ZzATD Chinese]''']</blockquote>

See also [[stability maintenance]].

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