A big F-U to China's Communist Party

[Schadenfroh]

Originally posted by: Promethply

Originally posted by: metalmania
Sense or not, guess some ppl here just fear that China will become powerful.

Chickens....

and meanwhile, we are forgetting about India's potential to be superpower as well.

But we are such good friends with them. Millions call India from America each day and spend long periods of time on the phone with them waiting on hold.

 

[Promethply]

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh

Originally posted by: Promethply

and meanwhile, we are forgetting about India's potential to be superpower as well.

But we are such good friends with them. Millions call India from America each day and spend long periods of time on the phone with them waiting on hold.

That's true, but political alliances could shift. Back when Soviet Union still existed, and was on America's most wanted list, wasn't India buddy-buddy with the Soviet Union, while China and America were in cahoots, which was changed once the USSR collapsed, where then China became America's strategic obsession.

 

[Manchurian Candidate]

Originally posted by: J0hnny

Originally posted by: Bumrush99
China is unique in these sense that overpopulation and varying ethnic groups competing for power can create a very unstable population/civil strife. Communism has failed, but the Chinese have been able to incorporate the successful aspects of capitalism to increase their GDP and improve the standard of living for most of it's citizens.

Recent history has shown that moving rapidly from a system of authoritatrian rule to full democracy can wreak havok. Look at the former Yugoslavia, the communist leadership was able diminish racial/economic strife for 40 years, but as soon as the government was dismantled we had a situation of almost instant genocide. China has over 100 MILLION Muslims already that have seperatist goals, and tons of other ethnic groups all competing for the same resources. The Chinese need a strong government for the time being. An inevitable consequence of open markets will be democracy, it will happen incrementally, not in a revolutionary sense.

Finally some sense into this thread.

i agree. he actually took out the time to explain everything. the Chinese GDP is has been on avg 10% a year for at least the past 10 years. after taking away the fluffs, it comes out to about 8%. which is more than twice the US GDP. If China is ran by pure communism, as defined by marx and lenin, this number is simply impossible.