China backtracked on almost all aspects of U.S. trade deal

Re:China backtracked on almost all aspects of U.S. trade dea... by spectramax on Wednesday May 08, 2019 @10:43AM (#19859256)

I don’t know why and I am not a Chinese citizen but this kind of thing bothers me deeply. I hope Streisand effect takes over China in a self-propelling feedback loop until this whole show comes crashing down. People of China deserve better (once they’re a solid middle class and taken out of poverty).

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Re:China backtracked on almost all aspects of U.S. trade dea... by jak92 on Wednesday May 08, 2019 @01:09PM (#19860888)

> People of China deserve better (once they’re a solid middle class and taken out of poverty).

You are implying that the current policies will bring them out of poverty which in a sense contradicts your first statement.

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Re:China backtracked on almost all aspects of U.S. trade dea... by samspenc on Wednesday May 08, 2019 @01:34PM (#19861122)

Countries have emerged out of poverty even with strong democracies. I'm not sure why the world thinks that a strongman regime like the CCP is needed for economic growth.

In that sense, China is (IMHO) actually an outlier, an exception where a Communist regime used fully capitalistic economic policies and foreign investment to bring people out of poverty. This could have happened even if there was a different form of government there.

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