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China has done remarkably well in last 6 years, lifting half a billion people out of crippling poverty. If their political system is as incompetent as you desc
by shabda 8y ago
China has done remarkably well in last 6 years, lifting half a billion people out of crippling poverty.
If their political system is as incompetent as you describe, I wonder how they manage to do so well.
- baybal2 8y agoThat's the mystery for me too. I myself met, I think, close to 100 officials in course of working in electronics industry for 11 years, and not a single one of them strayed from the stereotype I stated above. But even with gross incompetency of individual constituents, that party as a whole, in some absurd and bizarre way, ends up settling on more or less rational policies most of the time.
- samspenc 8y agoI believe that's due to the entrepreneurship and hard work of the individuals in the country, and not of the political system itself. Congratulating the CCP for lifting the country out of poverty would be like thanking the US political parties for making the USA the largest economy in the world (as opposed to the hard-working entrepreneurs and workers who built this country into what it is today.)
- wyuenho 8y agoThe Nazi party also did quite well for a period of time, also the Soviets. Also, no the CCP didn't lift half a billion people out of crippling poverty, the WTO did. The economy in China are markedly different before and after joining the WTO. America gave them a hand, hoping the market would change the system, they hoped wrong.