Re:What Peng Shuai reveals about one-party rule
by xxpor on Thursday November 25, 2021 @11:00PM
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Obviously older, but Japan and South Korea have probably improved even more if we look since the end of WW2. I hadn't known until recently that South and North Korea were both similarly poor at the end of the Korean War.
Re:What Peng Shuai reveals about one-party rule
by sudosysgen on Thursday November 25, 2021 @11:29PM
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Nah. Japan was well on its way to industry in WW2. SK improved a lot yes but still not as much as China and unlike China prospects are dim for a lot of people and politics is somehow even more of a mess. I think the average Chinese citizen is a lot happier with their government than a Korean one. Having a prime minister puppetted by a cult doesn't exactly inspire confidence.
Additionally the Chinese government has a very skillful tactic where they make the local government much more accountable via the central government but charges it of all the unpopular things. That way it gets credit for the good while the local government is blamed for the bad. It's quite smart actually.
His data probably comes from this research : https://ash.harvard.edu/publications/understanding-ccp-resil...
The data comes from in-person interviews. One may think that they were scared of saying bad things but plenty of negative feedback was received, they just reported that most issues were solved and were happy with the progress.
I the conclusion of dishonesty was much too quick.