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Chinas doing quite well since they opened up the free market in the 90s.
China has been only "in the game" for 35 years.
Japan has been "in the game" for over double.
T1 chinese cities are really nice honestly but you can tell there's still a lot of backwards shit still going on.
The CCP is just a dictatorship. It's not even really communist, just a capitalist dictatorship ruled by a committee
Good dictators > good democracies > bad democracies > bad dictators
Turns out, if you have unlimited power, you can make your country a million times better or a million times worse with no checks to your power. They don't have to answer to quadrennial elections or "steal from the future" to buy votes today. In Canada, the liberals had a strategy where they would spend a gazillion dollars to buy votes and that would just end up as debt for the next prime minister to pay off. Like buying a car but then making your kids pay for it. Japan has the same issue where they spend billions on their elderly and stick the younger generation with the bill
A good dictator might do a lot of good in Japan and undertake some necessary evils such as raising the retirement age, banning some black companies from doing their tactics, and ensuring that the elderly aren't a leech on the younger generation.
The issue with dictators is when they're bad, it'll take a lot of bloodshed to remove. But in china, that's a bridge they'll cross when they get to it
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