Comments by "Doncarlo" (@doujinflip) on "How China became the world’s factory" video.

"In China, the government is not seen as a hindrance to economic prosperity, but a prerequisite", according to the Party narrative anyway. On the ground though the CPC's rule by law approach introduces obstacles to smooth business operations, and creates uncertainty that the entire business model could someday suddenly get declared as illegal.
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Yes, the rise of China would've been much more palatable had the Mainland gone more the way of Taiwan, who had dropped its equally authoritarian White Terror and democratized at almost the same time as Tienanmen. Instead the CPC chose to keep its rule by force, and in the coming decades when its own aging, debt, and pollution prevents its economy from growing further, they'll likely find that there's nobody willing and able to provide real aid to a status quo PRC in crisis.
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Seems you need to research more. Afghanistan is one of the few neighbors that China doesn't have irredentist claims against; even Russia has to defend against what China is eyeing to "take back".
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Not said: one cat does silly actions and will sleep in your lap, while the other knocks down your shelf items and scratches up your furniture.
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You can blame the corporate libertarians who were unleashed by the Republicans, who got America's politics and conservative narrative to effectively sell out our ideals in the name of "freedom", "business", and private profits.
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Most of that pollution is also concentrated where the people are as well. Chinese cities regularly experience unhealthy levels of smog, and the rivers are increasingly uneconomical to cleanse for drinking with all the industrial chemicals getting dumped/leached into them.
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@lakeblackBLM Yet it's also quickly aging, exploding in debts, thoroughly polluted, extremely underweight in modern culture attractiveness, and has to militantly prevent people and capital from expatriating. In a couple decades China will be entering undeniable stagnation if not decline, and they'll find that smooth roads and promises of money will no longer be enough to continue the Party's unchallenged reign.
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