Yeah, 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 8

Yeah, 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.