Comments by "Winston Smith" (@kryts27) on "Chinas negatives now outweigh the positives!!" video.

  1. The Chinese people must want democracy, instead of dictatorship, to ensure a better future and to be prepared to wade through a river of blood to get at the same few that withhold that power from them now. It will be (it is) a very bloody revolution, but if the leaders of this revolution are responsible caring human beings with a clear vision for the prosperity and power of a future democratic China then the gravitas, economic prosperity, inventiveness, soft power AND global leadership China can achieve will be enormous.
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  2. Almost the exact opposite of Europe. With some exceptions, Europe (in general) has put a lot of time into preserving its old buildings and this shows with quality tourism (even though it's expensive to go there). Tearing down (rather than preserving) its heritage and past through conservation.
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  3. Preserving heritage is a democratic fashion with civic pride implied and a sense of history. China is not a democracy and it appears to be more and more like reading a mix of George Orwell's Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty Four
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  4.  @mike4ty4  Hi Mike, I see your point is valid, but u seem to be saying "you view cultural progression though Eurocentric eyes", to a certain extent I agree with you. However, I am also judging (like our friend Winston doing this video here) on the esthetics and traditions, which I am not a China expert on this, although we can all agree that China's civilization in the past was impressive (from the people that brought us paper, tea, silk and gunpowder) and considerably advanced to that of Europe's (until the eighteen century). I don't look down upon China's past, but its present form is an ugly kind of political totalitarian dictatorship with no cultural values except banal materialism; and largely a copy of the West's at that. The inventiveness is not yet there (they just steal from modern Western technology and mass produce it). If you're not an engineer or industrial technologist, you may not know that it takes hundreds of billions of dollars to advance computer technologies for example, and China is not " free enterprise" in the same sense as the corporations in West, Japan or South Korea. These "free enterprise" companies, like Google (though it pains me to say this), are building technologies as a business plan or to establish or ensure market dominance. This is capitalism Adam Smith style. This is not necessarily the modus operandi of Chinas large corporations such as Huawei, where political interference of the user may also come into play (using backdoor "keys" in your Huawei mobile phone for instance). This is a function of a government and society who wants no truck with the concept of individual rights and privacy for example (I have to bless democratic legalistic traditions and an independent judiciary for allowing me this right as an individual).
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