US, EU, even China and India. Regardless where you are, the economy sucks, housing is not affordable, prices are high, jobs are stagnant and class mobility is nonexistent (except maybe in China).
US, EU, even China and India. Regardless where you are, the economy sucks, housing is not affordable, prices are high, jobs are stagnant and class mobility is nonexistent (except maybe in China).
I never said it was good. I said that China had to respond to Soviet aggression, or at least the perception of it. When you’re threatening China, you are playing with fire.
Besides, are you going to deny the success of the Chinese model?
You are quite literally going to justify the PRC doing that in the rest of your comment.
It is a shame that you deleted your old comments despite, apparently, still sticking to the same beliefs. Now you get to say whatever is convenient for you about the claims you made then (unless relevant parts have been quoted).
No, it didn’t have to respond to the Soviet ‘aggression’. Especially not by allying the most evil polity in the world in order to support the horrors of colonialism.
This is extra silly considering that you said that the USSR and the PRC engaging in joint military preparations to oppose NATO was somehow an offense of the PRC by the USSR.
If by ‘the Chinese model’ you mean the economic system of the PRC since the privatisation, then you have to contend with facts like the worse situation with workers’ rights and guarantees compared to how things work in planned economies, like the loss of guaranteed housing and guaranteed healthcare, as well as the PRC becoming dependent on colonial exploitation of the rest of the world by NATO.
People love to point to the PRC advancing technologically at a faster rate than NATO, as well as to the bullshit ‘extreme poverty’ statistic that doesn’t actually convey anything of note, but fail to actually point to any benefits that workers get that compensate for the loss of housing and healthcare, and seem to think that the PRC wouldn’t have access to a large force of highly educated researchers without NATO’s investments.
People also like to forget that, because of the PRC’s reliance on NATO and NATO’s exploitation of the rest of the world, its leadership is interested in maintaining the status quo, rather than in helping liberate the rest of the world (which the USSR did contribute to).
If you meant the PRC allying with the most evil polity in the world, then the world is generally in a worse place than it was when the USSR existed - both because of the garbage states that arose on its corpse, and because there is now no such force that is willing to help anti-colonial liberation movements of the world, - and, considering that you seem to believe that the PRC had a significant contribution to the destruction of the USSR, you are saying that making the vast majority of the world worse was somehow good and successful.
Like, one can argue that the PRC privitising its economy was somehow necessary (though, let’s be honest, it wasn’t at least until the USSR got Gorbachyov), but there isn’t a serious argument about the PRC allying NATO being necessary.