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Thats why china failed big time. Ups, wrong parallel universe.. This tale gets better every time its told.

• pas 10y ago
  China is a very scary socioeconomic engine rushing down the road, and it could slide off the road and crash and burn, and go fucking boom into something rather scary. It's already very bad in certain things. Like freedom of the press (and other civil liberties). Putin's Russia is sort of arriving there with the new communications wiretapping requirements, whereas China has the Golden Shield Firewall operating for the past decade. Russian prosecutors going rouge and openly ally with the mob? A new and scary thing. But we never even heard of Chinese prosecutors doing anything other than what the current state (and regional, and their own) interests demanded. A train derailed and folks thought it'd be easier to bury it (as in put enough dirt on it to hide it) than to report it and face whatever consequences. Russia annexed Crimea, China does nasty things in Tibet and thinks very hard about how to make Hong Kong bend its knee. Industrial espionage is encouraged. Dumping too. (Ordering stuff from China is simply too cheap. The cost of international shipping is likely paid by the State.) Just as questionable loans to state-owned enterprises. And there are a lot of those. Not to mention environmental and health concerns. Sure, things are getting better for the average Chinese, but that's _very_ far from a success story.