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稳腚 (wěn dìng): stable bottom

[[File:Stable bottom.jpg|250px|thumb|right|''The stable bottom of the government. (Thomas Y.C. Wong [https://twitter.com/thomasycwong 鳩鵪亞黃])'']]Homophone of “stability” (稳定 wěndìng). Beginning under former president [https://chinadigitaltimes.net/china/hu-jintao/ Hu Jintao]’s leadership, the Communist Party has gone to great lengths to “[[maintain stability]]” in society. Using this rationale, protests are squelched, political dissidents are controlled, and the media is censored.

Netizens joke that China’s leaders’ obsession with “social stability” is a just a pretext for insuring the stability of their “bottoms” on the thrones of power. “When the officials’ bottoms are stable,” goes a popular saying online, “society is unstable. When the officials’ bottoms are unstable, ''then'' society is stable” (官员稳腚了，社会就不稳定了；官员不稳腚了，社会就稳定了).

[[File:123.jpg|400px|thumb|center|''The Great Goal: At first, it was to liberate the world. Then we shrank it to surpassing the U.K. and the U.S. Then [http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2012/05/documenting-chinas-lost-history-of-famine/ when the people had no way to survive, starved bodies were strewn everywhere and bellies caved to touch spines], the goal became the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_modernizations Four Modernizations]. Once we saw this was also hopeless, we said forget about it and toned it down to the [[primary stage (of socialism)]]. Now the goal was a comfortable life. Again, we saw it was no good. So let’s [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chinese_quotations#D let some people get rich first], we said. Who suspected that only two words would remain: maintain stability!'']]

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