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Re:China Moon Mission: Aiming for 2030 Lunar Landing by JumpCrisscross on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @04:33PM (#46877609)
My takeaway from China is democracy is less important than political competition. Between Mao and Xi, the CCP had the latter without the former. Today, America has the former and is struggling to keep the latter.
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Re:China Moon Mission: Aiming for 2030 Lunar Landing by baxtr on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @04:57PM (#46877901)
Yes agreed. But competition for what?

I'd say for the good of the majority of the people.

In other systems only those on top profit (maybe 10-20% max) even if they claim otherwise.

Thus democracy, through competition, aligns the leader's incentive with their people best.

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Re:China Moon Mission: Aiming for 2030 Lunar Landing by justinclift on Wednesday February 04, 2026 @06:52AM (#46884750)
> In other systems only those on top profit

Are you saying the US isn't doing that presently?

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Re:China Moon Mission: Aiming for 2030 Lunar Landing by baxtr on Wednesday February 04, 2026 @10:07AM (#46886722)
Yes. Mind you that like most things in life, it's a spectrum.
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