This is a flawed argument.
First of all, one of the (if not the) single greatest correlate to economic development is intellect, surprisingly (to some) as accurately measured by g-loaded IQ tests. Many psychometricians and many studies have brought this up over the decades. The correlation is significant. The fact that it is considered incorrect or racist to talk about doesn't take away from the fact that its true. The main exception from this trend? CHINA. Why? Due to ridiculously incompetent economic mismanagement. China scores among the top 3-4 highest of 200 nations on these tests, and yet...
You want people to be thankful that the CCP brought Chinese from sub-Saharan African standards of development to this current level, despite China being in this issue of having to endlessly catch-up in the first place due to the incompetence of the 50s, 60s, and 70s. Ridiculous.
Why is Taiwan developed? Hong Kong? Japan? South Korea? Singapore? Don't give me some propaganda that it's due to sucking on the teets of the evil capitalist Westerners. Oh, I see you already have in your last paragraph. No, there's a reason they are advanced and well-off, there's a reason Western Europeans are, and there's a reason why, outside of a few island tourist economies and oil nations, all of Africa and Latin America and the Middle East and the southerly belt of Asia are not; those that score highly on g-loaded IQ tests and personality tests (which score for honesty-humility, extraversion, openness, emotionality, agreeableness, and conscientiousness) are well-off; those that don't are not.
Yet China has to be the greatest exception to this rule, ever. And yet you and many others continue to defend the government to your dying breath. I am not some Taiwanese guy who hates the CCP, I just hate that they are not allowing China to reach its full potential, after having already wasted half a century of it.
China, as a nation with intellect similar to Korea or Japan, and a population more than the entire White race (people of European descent) combined, SHOULD be by far the worlds greatest power. Yet here you are applauding China for being moderately more than annoyance to America, and for giving hope to the dream that maybe someday soon it'll be an equal competitor. Sad to say but if China was under the KMT it may have already had an economy 3-4x the USA today! And have had it for the last few decades, thereby solidifying China as the pre-eminent power by far - something akin to the current difference between the US and UK.
I do not undermine Chinese unity, I seek to defend it. Chinese unity will collapse if it is allowed to rot under a government which is allowing such large inefficiencies to build up over a few more decades. Westerners, up until the recent wave of mass immigration, have allowed thought that contradicts this 'unity and stability at all costs' philosophy; somehow it worked out for them until this new wave of social liberalism. If there is one thing we can learn from them, it is stuff like that, stuff that fosters creativity and somewhat free thinking.
I dont want China to be endlessly catching up as well. It's true, China has closed the gaps in many areas, and yet many more have opened too. Someone like Elon Musk comes and boosts the gap again between China and the USA in many areas. Is this just going to happen forever? Maybe, maybe if there is not proper leadership.
