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Taiwan is the better China. It shows you can have a good economy, good infrastructure and a world class democracy at the same time. There is no need to make com
by amai 1y ago
Taiwan is the better China. It shows you can have a good economy, good infrastructure and a world class democracy at the same time. There is no need to make compromises on human rights to be successful economically.
- mogreator 1y agoUntil Taiwan become new HonKong and get reincorporated to China.
- amai 1y agoDid Hongkong economy improve since it belongs to China? Not at all: https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/economy/2024/1/26/in-hong-kong-decades-of-wealth-gains-evaporate-on-beijings-watch https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/economy/2024/1/26/in-hong-kong... I think especially Hongkong shows how Chinas dictatorship is actually holding it's economy back. If China would be a free country they would rule the world since a long time ago. But thanks to the iron grip of the communist party China will never be able to reach its full potential.
- maxglute 1y agoHK GDP grew by 7x since handover. It grew from 450B to 600B since HK crackdown. Reality is HK is portal to PRC wealth by PRC ascension, even pre handover. PRC decides how rich HK gets to be by deciding how much PRC economic activity HK gets to launder. Also TFW broken TW democracy is something to be emulated.
- amai 1y agoAccording to your own numbers it grew by 150B which is 33% in 30 years and not 700% as you wrote. Please learn math before you write propaganda for Bejing.
- maxglute 1y agoPer original comment: HK grew 700% since HANDOVER, 1997, i.e. 23 years. HK grew 33% since CRACKDOWN, 2019, i.e. 5 years. Please learn literacy and numeracy.
- maxglute 1y agoE: correction: I was off on post handover growth 250%. I used 87 gdp, not 97 gdp. Either way, stupid levels of PRC driven growth.
- amai 1y agoToday is 2025. Handover was 28 years ago not 23. So please check your math before posting. And please show citations for your growth numbers. They don't fit to the article I posted above. Have you even read that article or is that above your pay grade?
- maxglute 1y agoI've lax with my math because your claims are so ridiculous. AJ article is about stock performance, which is one index of economic improvement, that we can approximate in aggregate gdp ppp, which is easily referenced. Taking more than a few seconds and brain cells to respond to retarded insinuations that HK economy did not improve since handover, when HK economy is intimately linked to PRC economy, which has exploded since, is indeed beneath "my pay grade", i.e. personal time.
- erxam 1y agoTaiwan is not only subsidized by the US as a bulwark against China, but saying there's no need to compromise on human rights is a fucking joke. Taiwan is a militantly far-right dangerous country which has colluded and collaborated with cruel dictatorships as much as Israel or the US itself. Look up Fu Hsing Kang college or the World Anti-Communist League, for example. They have zero moral standing of any kind. For more modern examples, the last few remaining Latin American countries with ties to Taiwan only do so because Taiwan is handing over bags and bags of cash to ultra-conservative oligarchs and to the political elite, buying their compliance even at the expense of the general economy. This, coupled with the fact that the US is closing off all doors, means that average people lose out on a LOT of opportunities of both trade and development with China. And what is there to show off for it? Absolutely fucking nothing at all. I love Taiwan. Don't you?
- amai 1y agoGood morning, Beijing! Which VPN are you using to access Hackernews from China?