Oh, so easy. The rest of us in the developing world aren't hardworking enough? 
Exactly. The Party robbed the Chinese people of the freedom to pursue wealth and happiness after 1949 and made hundreds of millions suffering from abject poverty for decades. The biggest factor in China’s economic miracle is the hardworking and entrepreneurial Chinese people.https://twitter.com/franklangfitt/status/1093409410486095872 …
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What you say about China is doubly applicable to India - a "democracy" which has given its people the "freedom to pursue wealth" for over 70 years. Yet, it has ALWAYS been poorer than China. And it has killed more people than communist China:https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/08/capitalism-socialism-khmer-rouge-cambodia-china-famine-friedersdorf …
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Yep, that and the largest flow of foreign direct investment in human history!
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Capital follows opportunity, it doesn't create it.
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TheParty pulled the country together and after years of bitter trial &error, ups and downs created conditions that allow the people to blossom. True too, any party can do that-luck perhaps, but one with zero allegiance to outside forces is essential for a true China to emerge.
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Why is zero allegiance required exactly? Every strong country on earth interacts heavily with other nations and shares ideas, people, and varying degrees of "alliance".
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Needed is a catchy phrase in Mandarin that means “despite “.
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Before 1949 weren’t most Chinese living in abject poverty?
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Simplistic POV based on bad mistakes of CCP, pre 1978. There were many important and essential (hard) reforms pre'78 too which enabled the rapid transformation post '78. And in past 4 decades, CCP policy is simply spectacularly successful. CCP deserves Nobel prize in economic
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As a friend never fails to remind me, Taiwan is what China should have been, but on a larger scale. Growth can occur and the slowness of that growth can be caused by a combination of bad policy and rigidness of thinking in Chinese populace.
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