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Re:China overtakes U.S. for healthy lifespan: WHO data by valarauca1 on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @09:04PM (#17193199)
I don’t believe they’d be successful in China because they weren’t historically.

Also we can compare how a nationalist, democratic, and capitalist country of similar size, population, colonial explotation, and natural resource wealth would fair in India. Which again makes the PRC come out rosey.

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Re:China overtakes U.S. for healthy lifespan: WHO data by SuperNinKenDo on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @09:21PM (#17193264)
Ignoring whether I would choose 'Capitalist' as the first word to describe India's economy, India is still a bad comparison. The only reason it's even democratic is because it inherited British institutions. Taiwan built its democratic institutions from the ground up itself, after and during decades of military dictatorship, it's a completely different situation.
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