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Not a good example though. Many Chinese see the current Taiwan government as a failure and use it as an argument that China should NOT adopt western democracy
by echevil 8y ago
Not a good example though. Many Chinese see the current Taiwan government as a failure and use it as an argument that China should NOT adopt western democracy
- eastendguy 8y ago"Many Chinese"... where did you get this number from?
- echevil 8y agoBy talking to people and reading online. I'm Chinese btw.
- raxxorrax 8y agoThat is surprising since Taiwan eclipsed China in technological development and its GPD per capita is over 5x larger than Chinas. edit: despite economic pressure from China. But why should they have a realistic impression if information is controlled?
- echevil 8y agoBecause Taiwan was much more prosperous in the last few decades of last century, before Taiwan fully embraced western democracy and started having two ruling parties. Now, however, with Taiwan's economy/average wage being almost stagnant for almost twenty years, and the huge mess in the Taiwan politics, it is hard to see anything good came out of "democracy". > But why should they have a realistic impression if information is controlled? They may not know Taiwan well enough, but on average they know it much better than westerners.
- pcwalton 8y agoSo what? Many Chinese people also see Taiwan as a success.