Re:China's booming middle class is creating world's most dyn...
by AnimalMuppet on Friday September 18, 2015 @07:47PM
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> The Cultural Revolution kicked off an era of double digit GDP growth in China, which persists to today.
That's, I suppose, chronologically possible. That is, the growth kicked off after the Cultural Revolution.
Note well the word "after". The Cultural Revolution ran for 10 years (1966-1976), per Wikipedia, and then later, after that, China kicked off an era of double digit GDP growth, which persisted in China until maybe a year ago. That "later, after that" part is part of what makes me really skeptical of your view that it triggered the GDP growth.
It seems much more reasonable to suppose that the trigger was Deng's reforms.
That's, I suppose, chronologically possible. That is, the growth kicked off after the Cultural Revolution.
Note well the word "after". The Cultural Revolution ran for 10 years (1966-1976), per Wikipedia, and then later, after that, China kicked off an era of double digit GDP growth, which persisted in China until maybe a year ago. That "later, after that" part is part of what makes me really skeptical of your view that it triggered the GDP growth.
It seems much more reasonable to suppose that the trigger was Deng's reforms.