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Lol at one of the comments
This must be the worst overview of China's economic history I've ever read. Constant crazy conspiracy theories combined with a bizarre misreading of history.
You know I'm always a fan, SS.
Edit: How did you even find that post?
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On September 06 2012 00:03 Azera wrote:Lol at one of the comments Show nested quote +
This must be the worst overview of China's economic history I've ever read. Constant crazy conspiracy theories combined with a bizarre misreading of history.
You know I'm always a fan, SS. Edit: How did you even find that on such an obscure subreddit?
o_O I browse the China subreddit at least once a day
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Just seems like you're yanking your own chain is all...
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On September 06 2012 00:14 Azera wrote:
Just seems like you're yanking your own chain is all...
 Nah, not this time. Too old for that now...
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Where does all this actually come from? it seems you just took some points in history and made up your own stories around them.
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great insights and an interesting read. coming from consultancy, i applaud your structure, grammar and story. better than 99% of the stuff i read here.
thanks
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One of the images 404'd I think 
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And how exactly does all this affect america?
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Unfortunately this stuff just flies over my head
edit : haters on reddit. Whats your response?
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That last part is just your speculation right? Because I can see no way that the Party will relinquish their control and establish a Western-style democracy. (Or even a Sacha Baron Cohen style democracy). Even at the grassroots level (villages etc) which the Party is very keen on propagandising on the 7 o'clock news, a candidate can only get "elected" with approval of superior authorities and dissenting and popular alternatives are disappeared. Also it's in the Chinese Constitution that the Communist Party is the sole ruling party. Barring a revolution or a revolutionary leader (which looks unlikely with the current cronies), that part is not going to be changed anytime soon.
Meanwhile, inflation+monopolistic banks+monopolistic SOEs+high taxes+corruption+no good investment outlet continue to put average Chinese people's money into Communist pockets, and the ever-obedient populace can but look on in despair at yet another Error 101 while searching on the internet about the latest collapsing bridge.
Sucks to live in China. /Rant over
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Wow this was an epic post, i'm glad i read it. Very insightful.
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This isn't exactly the mainstream view of chinese politics, at least from what I've read. It's a reasonable and interesting pseudo revisionist look though.
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Well, it's hard for me to judge your work, especially as you do not show any proof or at least sources about what you talking about. Plus I'm not competent nor expert about China. As nttea said :
On September 06 2012 00:18 nttea wrote:
Where does all this actually come from? it seems you just took some points in history and made up your own stories around them.
Besides that limitation, I'm willing to say that there's nothing new under the Sun. Someone might write a very similar account (mutatis mutandis) of the birth of most of our own democracy, or, as Castoriadis loved to called them, our own liberal oligarchy...
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Thr history was good but I feel like you go a tad overboard on the speculation. Also you don't clearly distinguish between fact and speculation, which obfuscates it for people who don't delve into the finer points of recent Chinese history :d it's poor practice to pass off your own opinion alongside historical fact as if there's no difference ~.~
That said it was very well written and an interesting read. Certainly a compelling narrative.
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Wow this was a great read.
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This was amazing, and a good educational blog. My eyes are opened to this. I was always very curious about China's state of politics and economy. I've watched numerous documentaries about the exploding (i say exploding and not booming because it's literally like an explosion the rate things are going) real estate market is there, and it mirrors what happened here in the states when real estate boom was getting ridiculous. My fiancee went back to china recently and said it felt so non-communist compared to before that she hardly recognized it, and was surprised when I told her they are still technically 'communist'.
It'll be interesting to see how this pans out and what comes of it. While shady and scary, and elephants abound, China may become the US's greatest ally in levying both of our huge debts that are looming, and actually help the US get out of it's current economic crisis. I don't understand it well enough to elaborate, but China's growth and eventual short decline, will be something I feel the US will greatly expose and use to it's own benefit.
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amazing read. could you do one for japan? i've never fully understood why their economy got completely owned in the late 80's.
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Very, very well done. I have lived in and have been studying many aspects of China for the past several years (Mandarin, Chinese culture, Chinese politics, China's economy) and you just really nailed it. Really, really puts things in perspective for me.
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EPT
