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China seems to be doing well relative to, say, Italy.
by kjakm 7y ago
China seems to be doing well relative to, say, Italy.
- oarabbus_ 7y agoChina also sealed people in their apartments and left them to die to stymie the virus. 15 or so years ago China allowed ~500,000 people to die in order to build a hydroelectric dam (Three Gorges) for several other million. If you consider that kind of machiavellianism a good thing, I suggest you move to China.
- dmoy 7y agoChina's economy isn't very communist anymore. Also the things that are helping (at least anecdotally, according to family on lockdown now) have more to do with the ability to effectively implement quarantine than their economic system (which, again, isn't really a communist economy). There's still definitely a communist party regime, for sure.
- magduf 7y ago"Communist" in name only. The party is really just an authoritarian party.
- pseudolus 7y agoChina "communist"? Nominally, but no one here or there actually believes it. It's evolved into some sort of authoritarian regime with elements of state and private sector capitalism.
- magduf 7y agoIt's a lot like the US really, except that the country's rulers basically choose each other directly, instead of being chosen in a public election with rigged choices. Also, it has much more direct state control and ownership of certain industries and companies, but that's not completely unlike what happened with, for instance, the big auto bailout a decade ago.
- outlace 7y agoOk China has a supposedly communist regime but it is effectively not a communist economy.
- outlace 7y agoI regret making this original comment at all. It was stupid. I apologize to all.