• mrbutterscotch@feddit.org
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    1 month ago

    Ji xinping has called the reunification of Taiwan the essence of the countries rejuvination which must be achieved by 2049. And allthough they express a preference for peacefull reunification( which will never happen) officials have repeatedly stressed their right to resort to force.

    And their one party system is no more adaptable than other authoritarian systems. I don’t know where you’re getting that from. I mean just look at the Evergrande fiasco.

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      1 month ago

      In regards to adaptability, I’m comparing it to the liberal democracy I live under. Every administration in my lifetime has had far far greater policy continuity than difference. And it’s billed as a “laboratory of democracy”.

      The CCP is at least capable of recognizing policy failure and trying something else.

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        30 days ago

        I’m not quite sure what you are trying so say. Are you still talking about it in the context of China invading taiwan? As in they saw how didn’t work out for the US and that’s why they won’t invade taiwan? Because as I said they state themselves they are not opposed to forcefully acquiring the island.

        Talking about adaptability in general, yes of course an authoritarian leadership can adapt and react a lot faster than a democracy because it doesn’t have to care about checks and balances, human rights and all the other bureaucracy that make up a democracy.

        But that’s not really the adaptability that I would want, I quite enjoy living in a democracy…