Comments by "" (@benghazi4216) on "Over 70% Of Chinese Retail Chains Are Suffering Huge Losses, With More Than 500 Stores Closing Down" video.

@markmainprize1371 My biggest question is why you think that when democracy works for the other group of Chinese people, the Taiwanese.
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Lets not believe all those cellphone videos we are seeing, lets believe this poster saying his wife saw something else...
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@a.westenholz4032 The first paragraph is on point, but it's generalities, so my objection would be, why even include the west in that analysis? You have Taiwan, a Chinese state where democracy works like a charm. Better than some western countries mind you. I think that should be the focus. Why Taiwan and not China. And to the second I would just like to point out that there is zero unity in China. Everyone is out for themselves. The cultural memory of famine does that to you. They can't even take care of communal spaces in their own buildings. In my mind, federalization is they way forward. Then you can harness the distrust of the bureaucrats in the capital for something good.
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@a.westenholz4032 "Nor was the population there used to being governed by authoritarian heavy-handed governments." Taiwan had literally martial law for 39 years. Taiwan went from an authoritarian state to a democracy in less than 20 years. And the ending makes no sense to me. You are arguing that the past imperial rule made it easier to switch to democracy, while they both have the same history. So then it should be easy for mainland China too.
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