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The Chinese civilization has at least 2000 (the commonly given 5000 is way too generous) years of experience with statecraft. I think at this point they know wh
by kleton 5y ago
The Chinese civilization has at least 2000 (the commonly given 5000 is way too generous) years of experience with statecraft. I think at this point they know what will or will not backfire on them.
- inglor_cz 5y agoSo does the Western civilization, our roots are in deep Antiquity and a lot of Greek philosophy and Roman law still forms a base of our contemporary institutions. But we still repeated the same mistakes on different occasions. It often happens that when someone gets all the power, he (usually he) deems himself better at statecraft than those backward ancestors.
- mint2 5y agoThe government was completely overthrown three times in the 20th century, and the prior centuries saw immense turmoil as well. Do Italians have inherently good government skills due to Ancient Rome? Edit: oops overthrown two or three times depending on whether the Japanese take over of major cities counts. But anyway what I really mean is it had three distinct and extremely different governments. Transfer of skills seems questionable, to understate it.
- inglor_cz 5y agoA country with even longer tradition of governmental skills would be ... Iraq.
- JudasGoat 5y agoAfter the "Cultural Revolution", what is left of Chinese history, to learn from?
- inglor_cz 5y agoTaiwan?