China’s web censors go into overdrive as President Xi Jinping consolidates power

Re:China’s web censors go into overdrive as President Xi Jin... by JumpCrisscross on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @03:23PM (#16477491)

Political stability encourages growth [1]. The form of government seems largely irrelevant [2]. China is moving from a stable if novel mode (small-group democratic dictatorship) to an unstable mode (single-leader dictatorship).

[1] https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/4553024/alesina_...

[2] https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdf/10.1257/jep.7.3.51

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Re:China’s web censors go into overdrive as President Xi Jin... by woodandsteel on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @08:32PM (#16479935)

>Political stability encourages growth

Absolutely. That is why the US, thanks to having a multi-party democracy, never got anywhere with the industrial revolution. And that is why Putin's Russia is leading the world in technological innovation and economic growth.

Of course, if when you say "political stability" you mean the absence of things like civil wars and coups, well yes, that really helps economic growth. But I don't think Xi is making himself dictator-for-life because China is on the verge of that sort of instability.

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