Comments by "Good Citizen" (@GoodCitizen-gm1tl) on "Major \"Leap Forward\" In Chinese Robotics Sector" video.

  1. Mao was not an economist nor a scientist but a military strategist and a poet. He was good at commanding wars and writing classical Chinese poems and he indeed made grave mistakes in his economic policies due to the lack of knowledge in economics and science. Back then, China was still an agrarian society and didn't have much industrial knowhow, Mao said in 1954, "What can we China make? We can make tables and chairs, teapots and bowls, we can grow grains and grind wheat into flour, we can make the paper....but we can't make a car, a plane, a tank, not even a tractor." At that time, the West placed a seal-tight ban on everything over China and China relied on the Soviet Union for the guidance to industrialization. The Soviet Union transferred some industrial knowhow to China in the forms of assistance programs but the honeymoon was very short-lived as China and the Soviet Union rifted over ideologies and became enemies overnight in the late 1950s and the Soviets recalled all the assistance programs to China. Suddenly China was blocked by both the Western Bloc and the Communist Bloc. Mao was indeed a big fool. Thanks to Deng Xiaoping, China was able to walk onto the normalized path like other countries and became industralized fast in the past 40 years and now China is starting to lead science and technology in the world, who would have thought of this a few decades ago?
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  2. The West should thank Mao for pulling China back, otherwise China would have started industrialization since the 1950s rather than the 1980s and would have become a rivaling power to the USA by the 1990s rather than now.
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