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It’s also a bit different when you’re catching up due to interference/imperialism by foreign countries (like the US) in your country’s affairs from the past 100
by cdmckay 7y ago
It’s also a bit different when you’re catching up due to interference/imperialism by foreign countries (like the US) in your country’s affairs from the past 100+ years.
Why wouldn’t the state help develop its industries?
- throwaway2048 7y agoChina was very much in a similar situation pre-WW2, significantly worse infact.
- kiba 7y agoJust because somebody practiced imperialism against you in the past doesn't make you free from moral responsibility.
- 100011 7y agoChina's government is responsible only for its population. Moral responsibility isn't universal contrary to what liberalism says. This is a major, morally disarming agent that has turned pathological in NW Europe and US. What imperialism taught China is what the stick-end of liberalism feels like.