Yiwu - Totalitarians or not, it is the only system works in China. Westerners, especially the US, may not like the Chinese system. But it is only up to the majority of the Chinese themselves to judge. The dark age of the imperialism has pasted, thanks God!!!!
The same thing could have been said about democracy as a whole before the US revolutionary war. It had 'never worked' on a nation that size - mainly because it had never been tried.
As for totalitarianism, you sound like some of the older generation of Russians I've met. They decry the move to democracy because it meant the breakup of their empire. But the younger generation likes it, as do the the Baltic republics and, I suspect, many of the other ex-subjugated states. Just as I suspect many of the 'subjugated states' of China would like their freedom (e.g. Taiwan and Tibet).
Finally, before decrying imperialism, what about Tibet et al?
Clark |
