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Taking into account the rate of growth China has experienced in the last few decades, in a lot of ways (including standard of living), are you sure Chinese citi
by Al-Khwarizmi 11y ago
Taking into account the rate of growth China has experienced in the last few decades, in a lot of ways (including standard of living), are you sure Chinese citizens are not behaving intelligently by not making much effort to change a political system that is basically working for most of them?
In most of the West we have the luck of being born in democratic countries, we mostly don't have to lift a finger or risk anything to defend that. And yet, we increasingly elect dangerous morons like Trump, Le Pen, etc. to positions of power, which doesn't say much about our collective political intelligence. In China, defending political changes entails both personal risk and risk to the country itself (placing a country that is working very well economically and increasing its power into a political turmoil with uncertain results). I honestly don't think we are in a position to lecture them about this kind of things.