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Communism. Any society with majority chinese population (singapore, taiwan, hong kong) that has a free market is a modern developed country. China stuck behind

• unscaled 7y ago
  Communism was a roadblock, but China's relative decline (which really just means stagnation) started back during the Qing dynasty in the 19th century.
• Barrin92 7y ago
  There are plenty of countries without any communist history that are in much worse shape than either China or Russia, so this can hardly be a sufficient explanation.
  • RomanBob 7y ago
    It is sufficient for the case of china.