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> Because if you say "China is a totalitarian state", is an implicit admission that totalitarian states can be ashtoningly sucessful. This is exactly right. Fo
by tharne 5y ago
> Because if you say "China is a totalitarian state", is an implicit admission that totalitarian states can be ashtoningly sucessful.
This is exactly right. For the longest time, it was widely-believed that only liberal democracies could be extremely prosperous countries. The fact that 1) this is clearly not true, and 2), it's quite possible that being a liberal democracy may not even be the most efficient way to become a prosperous country, is a very uncomfortable thing to acknowledge.
I think the other piece is that there's a very vocal subset of the western population that is completely uncomfortable criticizing any non-western country, because it doesn't mesh with their worldview.
- 1231sdfsaf 5y ago> it's quite possible that being a liberal democracy may not even be the most efficient way to become a prosperous country I can't phanthom what could happen on the planet if at some point China becames a democratic republic..and it fails. And then you could have a good chunk of the planet in chaos. I think that for the time being, if anybody with chances of success, tries to pursuit a democratic revolution in China, many West forces would came in aid of the CPC just to make sure that their own countries remain safe. If you want to extend the idea, I think the same could happen for many powers, US, Germany, England, France, etc. The "regime change" is an extreme strategy, not much wanted to happen by most powers in other great powers. There are simply too many variants that could go wrong, and most could not be contained. A single (out of control) army regiment with the control of 1 (one) ICBM could be nightmare scenario to solve.