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Originally Posted by ba1025
In the same time frame South Korea which started at the same place has done far far better.
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Smaller country with the US pushing for and paying for a hell of a lot of reforms.
The problem calling for democracy in China is that there is no lightning rod to the democracy supporters to rally around. The last time it was tried, it was done by idiotic dumb kids too full of p!ss and vinegar going up against the iron will of Deng Xia Peng. Of course they were going to lose. Youth and enthusiasm ain't no match for experience and treachery.
You will someone with the likes of Sun Yet-Sen who was smart enough to see what China needed but not determined enough to stop the rise of Facism. China never had a chance for democracy. It went from Empire to facist to war/civil war to communist to now capitalist.
But times are changing. We're seeing the last of DXP's legacy momentum. The CCP is running out of steam in justifications to rule the country. There are signs that the CCP is listening to the people. After Tienamen, more CCP officials were arrested for corruption than students were for protesting. They're trying to bribe the population just a little bit longer ... but that only work for so long before the population demands change.
... as it did happen in both Taiwan and South Korea. It just takes longer in a country as big as China.