Comments by "John Roberts" (@view1st) on "China is now the 'world's sole manufacturing superpower'. How did it develop so fast?" video.

  1. GDP and GNP are not very good indicators of the health of a society. Perhaps that is the very reason why they are used; to use any other metric would show the USA and the UK to be less 'advanced' than they really are.
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  2. ​ @Marty-o5o  Purchasing Power Parity is how they measure such things.
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  3. Why would they want to imitate a failed/failing socioeconomic system as American liberal democracy!
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  4. How can you separate the two?
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  5. ​ @davidgmaloof  So failed harvests compounded by the lack of proper data is an atrocity. Like, the Chinese government just woke up one day and said let's kill a couple of million of our own people... just because. You know what are real atrocities? Enslaving people and genociding them based on their ethnicity, two policies that were deliberate and not excusable on grounds of bureaucratic incompetence or maladministration.
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  6. Socialism was what allowed them to get to first base in the first place. If it wasn't for socialism (or state capitalism/state corporatism?) they would probably have still remained at the same socioeconomic level as India.
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