Re:China's Silk Road Illusions
by eighthnate on Thursday October 26, 2017 @09:15AM
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> To be a modern country, it is hypothesized that the developing country needs immediately adopt American systems, laws, behavior & structures (the Washington consensus, etc.).
Rather than immediately following american "style", it is conjectured that you need to be given america's blessing and be allowed in our international world order.
> China: China is the egg, because they view modernization more or less independent (i.e., democracy is not a necessary).
Britain, Japan, Germany, France, etc all modernized when they weren't a democracy. If we are talking post ww2, south korea, taiwan, singapore, etc all modernized while they weren't real democracies.
You could be a dictatorship and still be part of the american world order - saudi arabia, kuwait, SK/taiwan for most of their history.
> that means more data points to understand how to modernize other parts of the world.
Modernization doesn't require data points. It's simply a political choice. As long as a major power isn't actively preventing you from modernizing, any country can modernize. It's simply a matter of political stability and investing in education and industry.
What makes china unique is that they are building institutions outside of the US world order ( AIIB, RCEP, BRICS, SCO and of course the belt and road initiative ).
Rather than immediately following american "style", it is conjectured that you need to be given america's blessing and be allowed in our international world order.
> China: China is the egg, because they view modernization more or less independent (i.e., democracy is not a necessary).
Britain, Japan, Germany, France, etc all modernized when they weren't a democracy. If we are talking post ww2, south korea, taiwan, singapore, etc all modernized while they weren't real democracies.
You could be a dictatorship and still be part of the american world order - saudi arabia, kuwait, SK/taiwan for most of their history.
> that means more data points to understand how to modernize other parts of the world.
Modernization doesn't require data points. It's simply a political choice. As long as a major power isn't actively preventing you from modernizing, any country can modernize. It's simply a matter of political stability and investing in education and industry.
What makes china unique is that they are building institutions outside of the US world order ( AIIB, RCEP, BRICS, SCO and of course the belt and road initiative ).
https://www.brookings.edu/research/chinas-emerging-instituti...
But world order doesn't necessarily have anything to do with modernization.