China to Ease One-Child Policy; Will Also Abolish Re-Education Through Labor

Re:China to Ease One-Child Policy; Will Also Abolish Re-Educ... by Jacqued on Friday November 15, 2013 @08:53AM (#6739376)

Well then I guess "Democratic People's Republic of Korea" is a republic with democratically elected officials.

There isn't a single communist country, and I don't think there has ever been any. You could argue that Russia was on a path to communism in 1917, but Lenin promptly put an end to it.

At most, China used to be (but isn't any more) a socialist country.

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Re:China to Ease One-Child Policy; Will Also Abolish Re-Educ... by leokun on Friday November 15, 2013 @09:20AM (#6739526)

> There isn't a single communist country, and I don't think there has ever been any.

The Animal Farm problem I guess, maybe AI can help some day.

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Re:China to Ease One-Child Policy; Will Also Abolish Re-Educ... by gambiting on Friday November 15, 2013 @09:27AM (#6739570)

Are you familiar with Ian Banks and his Culture books? This is basically what happens - people created "minds", computers which run their societies,but every person is provided with an infinite supply of anything they desire(it's fabricated on demand) and everything(and I mean everything) is allowed, with the exception of killing other people.

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Re:China to Ease One-Child Policy; Will Also Abolish Re-Educ... by theandrewbailey on Friday November 15, 2013 @09:27AM (#6739566)

I haven't heard that the Great Firewall is gone. Seems you forgot about how the Arab Spring threw China into cringe mode, and arrested people like Ai Weiwei.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/libertycentral/2011...

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Re:China to Ease One-Child Policy; Will Also Abolish Re-Educ... by toyg on Friday November 15, 2013 @09:31AM (#6739585)

Undemocratic ≠ socialist. This should be a fairly obvious statement, in the Year of Snowden.

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