> Honestly is it any less "baked in" than the pre-eminent Western powers?
Because it's _less_ "baked-in". Germany just recognized their part in a genocide, China has yet to acknowledge the Tiananmen massacre.
Because it's _less_ "baked-in". Germany just recognized their part in a genocide, China has yet to acknowledge the Tiananmen massacre.
You can smooth over a lot of mismanagement or save a lot of costs this way. It also seems the dividend from the colonial days is not enough anymore to keep the West going given their infrastructure seem to crumble every year.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13563467.2021.1...
Governments regularly cave in due to protests in democratic countries. It happened in the Netherlands a few months ago, for example.
Moreover, it's fundamentally important the fact that protests exist.
Comparing any western democracy to a dictatorship is the worst form of whataboutism.
Edit: by the way, it annoys me that I got trolled into posting something totally unrelated within a tech article. Why are all Chinese-related articles turning into exactyly the same direction in the past 3 years? I am tired of that.
No one knows what China would be like now had the CCP acceeded to the students' demands and liberalised.
Taiwan ended their long period of martial law around the same time too, and for a nation with so much stacked against it, you can hardly say they're doing badly.