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I for one think it would be a good thing for the US if Xi Jinping becomes a dictator. Dictatorships have been proven to be unstable and don't make great decisio

I for one think it would be a good thing for the US if Xi Jinping becomes a dictator. Dictatorships have been proven to be unstable and don't make great decisions. If inaugurated in a period of growth, they tend to stagnate after the original dictator dies. See USSR after Stalin and then Khruschev, Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe, The Pachas of Turkey, etc... Not to mention other dictators that were only brought down by war, but lord forbid that happens. So basically, the destruction of what little democratic-esque institution there was in China will inevitably result in a decline and/or downfall of the current political agenda of China, which can only be a good thing for the world in the long term. The world does not need more validation of dictatorships. It needs to see dictatorships fail, and - even more so - it needs to see democracies succeed.

JumpCrisscross 9y ago
> The world does not need more validation of dictatorships. It needs to see dictatorships fail Venezuela is a dictatorship failing. China's population is 50 times larger than Venezuela's. Its military capabilities and global economic integration are commensurately greater. When Xi falls, the best we can hope for is a few months of chaos contained to Beijing.
SubiculumCode 9y ago
If the world withdraws free trade with China, or realisticly, limits it by imposing tariffs on Chinese products, then the easy growth they've experienced would be gone. If we limit somehow limit their corporate espionage also...I'd expect the extreme suppression of their citizen's liberty and privacy will limit their innovation and growth.