Chabudo _IS_ why China is able to rapidly progress towards full potential. Fast, cheap, good. Pick two. Deng wanted poor China to develop fast. So ChaBuDuo. Th

Chabudo _IS_ why China is able to rapidly progress towards full potential. Fast, cheap, good. Pick two. Deng wanted poor China to develop fast. So ChaBuDuo. The original Life of Mr. Cha Buduo was an essay on the inability to adapt to modernization. Good enough + Chinese scale / population means = enough occasional, actually good outcomes to reach global competitiveness in ways that matter, fast. Modern Chinese ChaBuDuo culture is the maximal embrace of it for specific development goals. ChaBuDuo culture can be reigned in if the government really wanted to i.e. Chinese aviation safety used to be dismal, now it's one of the safest in the world. Same with high speed rail safety after the very public Wenzhou train crash. The question is whether PRC space program is guided more by "ChaBuDuo" vs world class quality due to political costs like aviation safety, or HSR, or rocket force etc etc. In terms of meeting results / goals I'd wager the latter.