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> miracle of transformation that is modern China There's no miracle. It's merely the communist party stopping 40 years of criminal abuse of its own citizens,
by kitschshrine 10y ago
> miracle of transformation that is modern China
There's no miracle. It's merely the communist party stopping 40 years of criminal abuse of its own citizens, and deciding to rent them out for pennies to the foreign corporations, and making billions in the progress (then allowing its members to escape China with the money).
The miracle actually is that Communist party, with its massive debt, crashing economic policies, authoritarian policies, censorship, human rights abuse, trashing of its environment/food supplies/water supplies, is still standing.
- nojvek 10y agoDo you ever see China becoming a democratic country? The few Chinese I know really respect their president and are quite happy with it. Also why would countries move to democracy when US (face of democracy) is turning out to be a bad example?
- contingencies 10y agothe communist party stopping 40 years of criminal abuse of its own citizens, and deciding to rent them out for pennies to the foreign corporations, and making billions in the progress (then allowing its members to escape China with the money). It is a fair point that a lot of stolen money escaped the country, though it's generally recognized that this process is slowing now. However, it is not fair to suggest that the Chinese government abused its citizens for personal profit when quite clearly the entire population has benefited greatly from the country's transition to widespread modern material wealth. The miracle actually is that Communist party, with its massive debt, crashing economic policies, authoritarian policies, censorship, human rights abuse, trashing of its environment/food supplies/water supplies, is still standing. If you replace Community party with US or UK government, the same is also true.