The Bitter Regrets of a Useless Chinese Daughter

Whereas China is not successful? It entered the top 5 of global economies from huge poverty in the 20th century, is now #2, and is poised to become #1 in the not so distant future. And this starting from developing world conditions, and a long time of colonial abuse.

Wikipedia "Until 2015, China was the world's fastest-growing major economy, with growth rates averaging 10% over 30 years.".

And from WTO: " According to data from the World Bank the global economy will expand by $6.5 trillion between 2017 and 2019. America’s GDP is expected to account for 17.9% of this growth. China’s, however, is predicted to account for almost double this, at 35.2%."

>- centries of wrong economic policy (until pretty recent radical change)

Actually the change that propelled them to #2 (and eventually #1) is over 3 decades old.

And China doesn't have "centuries of wrong economic policy". In fact for centuries (before communism) it was a hugely advanced economy (and the world's #1 e.g. in the Ming era).

>- can't vote - if the party loves a corrupt official, then what can you do?

You get to suffer them. But isn't the case in China that they are overly harsh on corruption? (Something like executing thousands officials each year)?

Of course those really friendly with the top tier will get off free, but then again, elsewhere they get bonuses and 1 trillion government bailouts for destroying the economy, so there's that.

>- a lot of human-rights violations

Well, from the Guantanamo to invading countries at will, it doesn't look right for other major countries either, e.g.: https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2018/country-chapters/unite..., https://www.hrw.org/news/2018/06/29/us-turning-its-back-huma... . So this is more of a case of the pot calling the kettle black than a real differentiation. At least China fucks its own citizens and/or neighbors they have beefs with, not everybody around. Besides is the case with Tibet that much different than e.g. taking by war several states from Mexico? Or getting Hawaii?

>- helping north Korea to make a nuke... right next to beijing!

So, like some countries that arm and befriend all kinds of dictators and repressive regimes, and are OK with their nuke programs but scold others for theirs?

>well have a look at Taiwan! it's smaller than China with the same ethnicity but Taiwan packs a punch without shady stuff China does (eg. stealing IPs, trafficking bodyparts, etc)

Yeah, but it was a Cold War darling, specifically pampered to act as a counter to China (e.g. getting US Aid up until the 60s), and then getting favorable business and investment. Meanwhile China had lost time in communist power struggles and civil war. Post 1980s though...

Besides, Taiwan itself was under martial law for decades, with government propaganda, restriction of print, restriction of political expression, etc:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martial_law_in_Taiwan

So, not exactly a paragon of democracy at the time either.

KMT is actually doing very poor at the time when they are ruling the whole China, which is something our (P.R.C) text book love to talk about. And it's the main reason of why many people are actually the fan of CCP at that time ... Just so you know.

Sadly we didn't end up with a two-party government like the U.S. did, so we have to argue with each other about who is the rightful government of the China all along.