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No free speech. It hurts their educational systems very deeply. They also have a culture of bribing/gifting, from middle school up into the business world and
by studentrob 10y ago
No free speech. It hurts their educational systems very deeply. They also have a culture of bribing/gifting, from middle school up into the business world and government.
It all boils down to the government wanting to hold onto Asian culture, avoid conflict, keep control and save face.
They view democracy as America's attempt to insert a US-friendly leader. Democracies are arguably the best peace keepers humanity has ever seen, however, China does not view it this way.
This is my perspective after living in SE Asia for 2 years and Taiwan for 2 years. I travel through China occasionally.
Visit China, you can see for yourself
- B1FF_PSUVM 10y ago> Democracies are arguably the best peace keepers humanity has ever seen, You might want to examine that belief, and how you acquired it. Evidence for it in the historical record is not exactly abundant. (Feel free to dig back 25 centuries, and start by looking up how the Athenian democracy went around kicking their neighbors' butts, as told by one of the Athenian generals, a fair-minded bloke. Thucydides' Melian dialogue is the magic string.)
- studentrob 10y ago25 centuries is a lot of research.. Can you save me the time and tell me which form of government is the best?
- lgieron 10y agoDidn't Athens fall because their democratic government assigned too little tax money to military? That's what happened in first Polish democracy (XV-XVIII centuries).
- douche 10y agoIt had more to do with launching a boondoggle invasion of Syracuse that ended in total disaster, from what I remember from my Thucydides.