Oh God, not more whining about India.
Guys, whatever chips you have on your shoulders about India, I suggest you get over it. China can be a better democracy than India.
And don't pretend that India "suffers" from democracy just because it's big. Belgium is tiny, but had a caretaker government for 541 days. Seriously. Why? Because the way by which politicians are elected is flawed.
If you want to compare 2 countries economic and political development, find 2 countries with comparable social and economical development,. India is comparable to China in every sense . Both of them are large in term of landmass and population. Both are newly independent countries.Both of them suffer from colonialism. both of them have indigenous culture. Heck India even had a head start. Indian economy is 4X larger than Chinese economy in 1947. India has the best infrastructure and industry then, India inherited good civil servant and school system from British administration. The treasury is brimming with surplus
China was completely devastated by the incessant warlord ism,WWII, civil war. The KMT carted off all the gold in reserve bank, NO infrastructure or industry to speak off other than some in North west but the Russian clean everything up when they return the Manchurian provinces.So as Engineer said China start from Scratch! In other word China is ganz kaput
Yet 50 years fast forward China economy is 5 times Indian economy(1.4 vs 6.5 Trillion dollars) China's infrastructure is world class compare to third world, You can compare every indices of life and China is well ahead
So now How can you explain that ?. China must doing something right that India didn't
But you're ignoring America's incredible rise. They built a whole country from scratch in double-quick time and became the most powerful country in the world. You can't denounce an entire political system just because there are sometimes disagreements on how to get things done. America has massively benefited from democracy and accompanying freedoms/rights.
Yet with all the favorable condition such as bountiful country. moderate climate and relatively free from natural disaster, free from interference and aggression from neighboring countries, It take America 200 years to achieve their high living standard.
China constantly has to face interference and meddling . Right after her independence she has to face KOREAN War, Indian border war.Vietnam war.
Only 40% of China's land mass is suitable for agriculture the rest is waste land, China is prone to natural disaster. too much rain, too little rain, earth quake, flooding, Icing You name it
Yet within the span of 30 years she effectively eliminated poverty and lift 400 million out of grinding poverty. No one has ever done that in such a short period of time!
Remember that
How is any of that relevant to this discussion? We're talking about change in China today. China doesn't have to introduce 18th century "democracy". It can just grant modern democratic rights and freedoms to everyone. As I said earlier, China can choose how to bring in reform. It's not shopping from a catalogue with limited options, it can look at all the democratic systems in the world and pull good aspects from all of them.
For example, I would go with a parliamentary system. The president would have limited powers for emergency situations. He or she could be directly elected or appointment by parliament.
MPs would be elected by first past the post, making it easier for a party or parties to form a stable majority government. Parliament would also select the PM, who would be the nation's leader. This would avoid the situation in the US where the president doesn't necessarily have a majority in Congress. And that's just for starters.
There is no perfect political system, but China is in an enviable position of being able to pick and choose the means for which it will become a proper democracy.
It has been tried before and failed miserably. The result is misery, poverty, war, warlord ism, colonial aggression, In other word a splinter and weak china , impoverished China
Now who is stupid enough to try a failed model second time around !
China is not perfect far from it But the problem of corruption, inequality, environmental degradation are part and parcel of developing country. You can't get a way from it That is why China is called developing country and not developed country.Sometime people forget that and tend to compare China to the like of Britain or Germany.
But because there are some bad apple you don't have to throw the baby with the bathwater
