How has China built up a huge industrial infrastructure that produces wealth for the country but also creates?
March 19th, 2010
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Author: How has China built up a huge industrial infrastructure that produces wealth for the country but also creates the vast gap in incomes that the communists were going to abolish? Does it seem likely that, as China grows more prosperous, there will be greater demands for respect of civil rights and political freedoms? Will the power monopoly of the Communist party eventually erode?
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Tags: china, civil rights, communist party, communists, gap, incomes, industrial infrastructure, monopoly, political freedoms, power monopoly
First of all, I would like to point out that I am not advocating any particular political view here. I would like to say that In the last 20 years alone, China has managed to lift over thirty percent of it’s population (over 400 million people) out of poverty (that is, living on less than $1 per day)! (1) That’s a pretty amazing feat by itself no matter what country it is and what kind of system it’s using.
Having said that, yes, you’re absolutely right that things aren’t perfect there; but they are definitely getting better. I do think that there will be greater demands for political freedoms but some of these may not necessarily be home grown. As more international organizations enter China, they will definitely be pushing for more of these to help support and push their own views.
Regarding your question about the Communist party eroding, it is very difficult to answer that because, like practically everything else in the world, the party appears to be adapting to modern times. It’s slowly permitting (at varying degrees) many of the things it previously denied, while still trying to maintain it’s underlying beliefs and core principles (it’s Chinese Characteristics).
Those that try hard to learn from history usually do best, and China has a very long history and culture which it, if I may generalize, uses and refers to often when making decisions about what to do today and in the future.
I think the intend for it to erode and are just hoping they can keep it together so they do not have the result that Russia did when the party lost power.
Yes of course it will erode, the latest communal riots and protest by the university students in the country is a good example for that.But we have to appreciate the governments efforts and plannings to overcome this disturbances but these wont last long
The only choice left to the government is to divert the public by going into war with a weaker opponent.
The favorites among them its India. Both the countries bilateral relation is not among the best. dalai- lama issue or the Border issues might be the most possible reasons
You look at things in life with tunnel vision. For you, things are either your way, or no way.
A country that is controlled by the State doesn’t necessarily mean it is destined to fail. If you cared to even compare USSR and China, you will know they have more differences than similarities.
China has a good deal of experience and history with running their country. About 6000 years long to be exact.
Why don’t you worry less about China, and spend more time doing something productive for yourself.