Comments by "C_R_O_M__________" (@C_R_O_M________) on "John Coogan" channel.

  1. There are survivors and survivors, the things he has endured must have made him an incredibly flawed individual. Imagine your mother giving you to the authorities where the consequences could be fatal. After this he must have grown mistrustful of anyone. That's NOT what you want in a leader. Ofc, that's a scenario I can't confirm, human nature is extremely complex.
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  2. Wow! Just wow! Do you really excuse that type of governing people? That's pathetic! Is that how you believe huge societies should be ruled? Where are you from if I might ask? Sincerely interested in what sort of educational system broods these opinions.
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  3.  serriajohn  you are painting a favorable picture for the Communists who were the "winners" of the mainland China civil war. But apparently the Kuomintang took control of Taiwan and that's that! The communists have now as many rights in Taiwan as the Kuomintang in mainland China which, in both cases, equals to nothing! That's the status quo after a bloody civil war in which nobody (I can assure you) was a ... saint! So I see that you are actually supporting your ideology by proxy without the necessary arguments to base your beliefs. This makes your comment wasted internet space.
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  4.  @jiejie2054  In China for sure not! Elsewhere in the world it can be restored.
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  5.  @moepharmo  Absolute and utter nonsense about him being a great leader, you don't actually know the man and it's impossible to know what personal decisions has he taken, against who, on what criteria. Nothing! You just don't have the basis for such a comment. . It appears to me that he's most likely a deeply flawed man who after his mother betrayal is most likely scarred for life in mistrusting...even his own mother. This creates a profile of a very dangerous man with absolute power. He knows how to hide emotions, intentions and thoughts (it was a matter of survival for him) and people like that may shake your hand today and send you to your execution tomorrow without losing sleep. That's NOT what you want in the leadership. The economic "marvel" is solely a function of opening their economy to capitalist practices and trade and from the horrendous point that Mao and his madame brought the country, the only way was up. Being an intelligent and hard working ethnicity helped a lot but by no means they have achieved something that even an infant in power wouldn't have achieved provided that (Deng Xiaoping's) policies opened and freed their markets.
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  6.  @AW-uv3cb  You are absolutely right and kudos to you for this perfect display of critical thinking. I urge the readers to take hold of a book (still banned in China - what sort of person supports societies that ban books - I wonder!) by Jung Chang, "Wild swans: three daughters of China". It's a riveting book that tells almost everything about the China of the 20th century with incredibly graphic details. It's the first large book (if I recall correctly over 400 pages big) that I finished in a week or so. Just couldn't believe the stories and paranoia of that era. The father of the author was essentially the governor of an area as large as a big US State, a very honest and devoted communist, with direct access to Mao himself, and who ended up dying insane, accused for anticommunism and in an asylum from the things he dealt with. Things like parents admitting to cannibalism with their offspring as . . .dinner! Most of them cases were voluntary surrenders and confessions as these people just couldn't live with their conscience! The things we don't know about these brutal communist regimes in the West is simply mind-boggling and a success of international (even domestically in Western countries) propaganda. They are the masters of that game for sure.
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  7. How can you tell? Are you completely insane? Don't you know that most of those displays (if not all) are highly calculated appearances, planned, and controlled by the party and the government. Do you believe that they would place him in midst of anyone who could be out of control? Absolute power comes with drawbacks. One of them is that you are bound to make mortal enemies because you wrong millions of people.
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  8. History has shown that absolute power isn't to be trusted.Ever! The specific individual is surely a survivor but at what cost to his humanism? I mean, getting betrayed by your own mother to the authorities (where she had absolutely no control of what was to happen to him afterwards - or very limited control, at the very best of cases) must have devastated this guy's trust towards anybody! That's the worst kind of character profile you want to bestow absolute power to. To people that talk about the great economic results of China and think that his leadership and that of their only ruling party are mostly the planners of that success: In a sense they are but not because of central planning per se, but because of the allowance of free markets and trade to happen. That's actually Deng Xiaoping's realization (with his famous "black cat - white cat (it doesn't matter) as long as it catches mice!" and opening the Chinese market to capitalist practices). From there, their non-existent, internationally, economy had only one way to go and that was up. It helped that the Chinese were historically clever entrepreneurs and hard-working, the fact that they provided dirty-cheap labor (so outsourcing of Western production became instantly attractive), their non-adherence to international patent rules and stealing of copyrighted technology by all means necessary, including industrial espionage, in general they have achieved great results only due to opening to capitalist practices while being hard working and . . . well . . . protected by their government from potential competitors and consequences from stealing foreign technology. Moreover, the presence of Chinese in many markets around the world is subsidized by their government and that is a double edged sword as on the one side you have a high chance of surviving in the market but on the other these people are now exposed to a different set of human rights and those are not comparable to those in China (with social scores, social cancelling, the fear of saying or doing anything against their "beloved" leader, etc). Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely!
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  9.  @EuriEuropa  Most of them, the vast majority are funded by the State. Some even sleep within the stores they work in the day.
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  10. @gggg-xv7nb Most likely! I mean what sort of person can endure the betrayal of his own mother and then start trusting anyone around him? His grab for power coincides with his fear and mistrust of everything around him. He's surely a survivor but to what cost to his humanism? Quite possibly the worst type of person to have absolute power in hand.
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