China Has Whole Towns Focused on Making Electric Cars

Re:China Has Whole Towns Focused on Making Electric Cars by cat199 on Monday June 03, 2019 @01:43PM (#20085883)

Not a field expert, but I'm fairly sure that China's vast economic growth is due largely to trade normalization with democratic countries in the last 20 years or so that happened after the fall of the USSR.

Both were subject to the 'dont trade with communists' policy during the time they both existed..

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Re:China Has Whole Towns Focused on Making Electric Cars by oblio on Monday June 03, 2019 @02:05PM (#20086188)

China actually turned the ship around thanks to Deng Xiaoping. It wasn't just trade normalization, it was also their adoption of many free market practices that allowed them to be competitive. Compare and contrast with Russia.

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Re:China Has Whole Towns Focused on Making Electric Cars by AstralStorm on Monday June 03, 2019 @04:38PM (#20088411)

Funny enough Russia is even more capitalist than China. However, its capitalism is focused on resources and agriculture (esp. fishing) sector and not manufacturing (except weapons where they excel) - and keeps quite a bit of EU in stranglehold.

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Re:China Has Whole Towns Focused on Making Electric Cars by cat199 on Wednesday June 05, 2019 @10:38AM (#20104829)

Hmm. interesting.

But wasn't this the same time as glasnost/perestroika?

And again, this doesn't happen in a vacuum..

Was non-communist policy (e.g the west) more favorable to china than russia?

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