plawolf
Lieutenant General
Comparison between China and Germany and Japan were always driven more by idealology (of those making the comparison) and wishful thinking than any semblance to facts and reality.
China haters wants to link Chinese rise with memories of WWII to get ordinary people to feel uneasy and even oppose a rising China.
They also want people to drawn the conclusion that China's rise is only temporary and comes at unacceptable cost (why do you think western media give so much prominence to every pollution scare in China? Its not like their primary target ordinance will actually need that information. Same with human rights, censorship etc) that it is doom to fail at some point as a means to preserving the supposed divine superiority of their own form of governance and social values in the face of growing empirical evidence to the contrary.
Janus is right when he said every system has its limitations. What he failed to grasp is that systems can be changed and improved once those limitations manifest themselves.
Perhaps he is confused because that is an utterly alien concept in the west, where dusty old documents written by people who could not have possibly imagined the complexities and challenges of the modern world are still held as sacred and the embodiment of divine perfection even when religious adherence to those archaic tombs has produced nothing but bad policies and worse governance.
The rabble in the western media always harp on about China's supposed lack of political reform to match the scale and scope of its economics reforms. But the fact is that there has been enormous and comprehensive political reform in China that proceeded and probably even surpassed its economies reforms in both scale and scope, and that China's economics reforms and grown was only made possible by those political reforms.
Only one man in the western media world has so far had the insight to recognised that. The reason China's political reforms have been somehow missed by the west is because of the west's hubris and arrogance in insisting that only reforms that makes others conform to the west's model of political and social governance and values can be recognised as reforms at all.
All of the political changes and reforms implemented in China had been written off high-handily in the west as petty factional court politics or score settling, with little to no heed paid to the political ramifications of what it might mean for one faction to gain prominence and what it means for certain influential individuals to loose or gain powerful positions.
Just because the west shuts its eyes, blocks its ears and shout 'it isn't happening, it isn't happening' does not change the fact that the CCP has changed enormously since even the time of Deng, and continues to change even as we speak.
That ability to adapt and change is the key to its continued existence and success rather than all the 'oppression' its supposed to be doing.
China haters wants to link Chinese rise with memories of WWII to get ordinary people to feel uneasy and even oppose a rising China.
They also want people to drawn the conclusion that China's rise is only temporary and comes at unacceptable cost (why do you think western media give so much prominence to every pollution scare in China? Its not like their primary target ordinance will actually need that information. Same with human rights, censorship etc) that it is doom to fail at some point as a means to preserving the supposed divine superiority of their own form of governance and social values in the face of growing empirical evidence to the contrary.
Janus is right when he said every system has its limitations. What he failed to grasp is that systems can be changed and improved once those limitations manifest themselves.
Perhaps he is confused because that is an utterly alien concept in the west, where dusty old documents written by people who could not have possibly imagined the complexities and challenges of the modern world are still held as sacred and the embodiment of divine perfection even when religious adherence to those archaic tombs has produced nothing but bad policies and worse governance.
The rabble in the western media always harp on about China's supposed lack of political reform to match the scale and scope of its economics reforms. But the fact is that there has been enormous and comprehensive political reform in China that proceeded and probably even surpassed its economies reforms in both scale and scope, and that China's economics reforms and grown was only made possible by those political reforms.
Only one man in the western media world has so far had the insight to recognised that. The reason China's political reforms have been somehow missed by the west is because of the west's hubris and arrogance in insisting that only reforms that makes others conform to the west's model of political and social governance and values can be recognised as reforms at all.
All of the political changes and reforms implemented in China had been written off high-handily in the west as petty factional court politics or score settling, with little to no heed paid to the political ramifications of what it might mean for one faction to gain prominence and what it means for certain influential individuals to loose or gain powerful positions.
Just because the west shuts its eyes, blocks its ears and shout 'it isn't happening, it isn't happening' does not change the fact that the CCP has changed enormously since even the time of Deng, and continues to change even as we speak.
That ability to adapt and change is the key to its continued existence and success rather than all the 'oppression' its supposed to be doing.
