Comments by "zjeee" (@zjeee) on "Why China cannot abandon communism" video.

  1. Well obviously there is no one reason to cover all bases, it's hard to run an effective democracy without an economic base and educated population and China had a literacy rate of around 20% in the 1950s and it's not until the 1980s and forward where economic progress was made. I find it very hard to see China being able to have a democracy under such circumstances before the 1980s even if they actually wanted to. A great example is to observe democracies in the Middle east and Africa, democracies rarely work well without a strong economy and an educated population. These days the foundations are much stronger in China and I am sure it could work but obviously the communist party would never allow such a thing. But yeah you are right there is nothing specific about Chinese culture that makes them choose one way of governance over the other, the people of Hong Kong and Taiwan had no problem whatsoever adopting western culture and democratic elements. But just the mere size of China and the division among the minorities would probably shrink it's size very quickly should they try to adopt democracy. Xinjiang, Yunnan, Tibet and Inner Mongolia would break off as soon as they got the chance without an authoritarian state around.
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