"Some fear a return of the leadership dysfunctions that blighted the earlier period of Communist rule" is an amazing way to put it. Unclear if the author is referring to the Great Famine, Great Terror, or one of the manifold other crimes against humanity.https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-07-05/when-will-china-s-economy-beat-the-u-s-to-become-no-1-why-it-may-never-happen …
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I got the sense you have a personal grudge with communism, but it shouldn’t let you lose sight of the fact that in terms of misery scale colonialism is far ahead of communism, if anything because it is still ongoing while most communism attempts have been thoroughly beaten out.
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I don’t think one can really compare something that was prominent for a big part of the 20th century with something that is more than 400 years old and still going strong today.
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