By: The Clock
I’ve always been skeptical about the CCP “lifting” all those people from poverty, and think the more accurate description is that they got out of its people way so they could lift themselves from...
View ArticleBy: Richard
The main “other factor” is that the Chinese are , have been and always will be the most industrious, capitalistic people on the planet. Once they were give an inch by the government they grabbed a...
View ArticleBy: Mike Goldthorpe
“The Chinese Communist Party has lifted hundreds of millions of Chinese people out of poverty” This is one of those lines trotted out as if it is taught at school by rote. While I don’t disagree with...
View ArticleBy: Mike Goldthorpe
“Then why is India in such a miserable state? Why is Russia in such a tragic state? Why is Ecuador, Bolivia, Argentina, in such miserable states? What about Indonesia? What about most of Africa?” Are...
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Mike, please remember Tick-Tock’s track record here. Literally everything he says is wrong, almost without fail.
View ArticleBy: justrecently
Thanks for the link, Richard! I’m neither giving the CCP, nor the British colonial administration in Hong Kong, too much credit for the economic achievements in either place – just to avoid useless...
View ArticleBy: tennessee euler
If only Augusto Pinochet had had theories like the “ship on the ocean” or the teachings of Kong-Zi in his day. Wouldn’t it have been great to claim that no non-Chilean could understand Chile?
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