Incredible how "keeping their people down" means leaps in personal wealth and happiness for huge swathes of the population and internal criticism is that it is a "poverty reduction machine" that is too focused.
If they had a government like Taiwan they would be significantly wealthier. Their government is a drag and should not steal credit from the actual people who made that wealth with their hard work and entrepreneurship.
They're not mutually exclusive. Lots of terrible and mismanaged governments rely on genius short-term economic exploitation, like Syria, Iran, India, Korea, etc.
What would be incredible is China sticking the landing to a third-sector economy. Plenty of countries have industrialized over the past century, only a handful became true service economies.
Incredible how "keeping their people down" means leaps in personal wealth and happiness for huge swathes of the population and internal criticism is that it is a "poverty reduction machine" that is too focused.
If they had a government like Taiwan they would be significantly wealthier. Their government is a drag and should not steal credit from the actual people who made that wealth with their hard work and entrepreneurship.
They're not mutually exclusive. Lots of terrible and mismanaged governments rely on genius short-term economic exploitation, like Syria, Iran, India, Korea, etc.
What would be incredible is China sticking the landing to a third-sector economy. Plenty of countries have industrialized over the past century, only a handful became true service economies.
You can only become a service economy by outsourcing everything to another country. It's not a sustainable model and it's related to imperialism.
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Tell that to the Uyghurs if you can get into their concentration camp to have a chat.
Yep, comment arrives right on time. Nicely played. :)