>>24739681Did you visit Guangzhou, or maybe Shanghai as tourist? Thought those represented China in full?
Or did you watch some Western paid shill's video on China, thinking Beijing is representative of the whole country?
>>24739753>One is an island with population of half of California and a (now) transparent goverment.Which stayed under control of the Kuomintang, the Chinese Nationalist Party, after its defeat by the CCP in mainland China. A stark contrast to the rest, who fell under socialist rule:
>The other is overpopulated and authoritarian.Yes, because of socialism. Modern China is a continuation of that Maoist shithole, of a socialist country, only driven back into relevance by Deng's reforms, which brought it from a fucktarded Maoist socialist to market socialism, where the economy can actually function without being stifled by delusions of planned economy.
>Asking why China isn't like Taiwan is like asking why can't all the other sea shitholes just be like Singapore. No, it's not. Not even close. These are the same people. The same culture. The same values. Only divided by socialism. One part was left without its corrupting influence and the other embraced it fully, losing dozens of millions of its own population to its insanity.
>The same KMT that governed Taiwan had a go at governing all of China and the results were disastrous. Not as disastrous as the Cultural Revolution mind you, but still bad enough, worse than chinkland is today.And compare that to Mao's China, for crying out loud. How many dozens of millions did the KMT's actions kill?
What matters most is the here and now. Right now, Taiwan is a developed, high-tech, civilized country. While China is China. A shithole, with a potemkin facade of civility and development.
The one, key difference between these two places is socialism. China got stuck in it, so it failed to develop along the lines it could have.
