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How is this the top comment?? It ends by saying that, if authoritarian China has done better than democratic India, which is hard to argue with, it must be...
by samatman 4y ago
How is this the top comment??
It ends by saying that, if authoritarian China has done better than democratic India, which is hard to argue with, it must be... because China is democratic!
The model must guide the data, you see! This should be roundly mocked, not upvoted.
- dan-robertson 4y agoYeah, I kinda agree the last paragraph didn’t make much sense. I would add though: - China and India have had quite different problems to solve over the last 80 years or so. - China got ‘lucky’ recently with a few good leaders (in the sense that the country developed massively under them) in a row. But it seems that Xi isn’t such a good leader in that sense (he is in the sense of consolidating power and becoming leader for life). But the narrative in the west may not have caught up yet with the idea that China doesn’t have some magical super-competent government. It’s maybe harder to tell if they’ve been lying about population and gdp and suchlike. - I think it’s more accurate to say that democracies allow bad leaders to be removed rather than that they allow good leaders to come to power.
- roenxi 4y agoI didn't say "more democratic". Democratic enough would be closer to the thinking. And if you have any real insight at all into how the CCP internals function, do link a source. Because as far as I can tell nobody knows. It is very opaque. I have only been able to find low-quality guesses and what may be well intentioned but is functionally anti-China propaganda. I wouldn't want to bet the farm on it, but for all I know they might be extremely democratic internally - similarly to how the UK is a model of democracy despite having an overt monarchy and system of nobility.