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China has an advantage that it has no large ethnic underclasses, and minimal welfare state. But the country would have been undoubtedly better off if the Natio
by beerlord 8y ago
China has an advantage that it has no large ethnic underclasses, and minimal welfare state.
But the country would have been undoubtedly better off if the Nationalists won the civil war - and the place ended up like Taiwan.
- khuey 8y agoIt's far from obvious that a Republic of China that wins the Chinese Civil War would have developed, reformed, and democratized in the same way that the rump ROC on Taiwan has.