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Originally Posted by Ronin4hire
Also I wouldn't be so sure of China's future. The economic recession hit China hard aswell. China has only come to power on the back of the West and other countries. It has a long way to go before it can truly claim global superpower status. Untill that time... what the West thinks matters to China. Hopefully awareness over the injustice which is the Chinese occupation of Tibet can help pressure the CCP into giving them a say at least.
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Democracy is only one of many means to prosperity... which is bread and circus lol. See there is a common theme in my posts.
My main argument is democracy doesn't always lead to properity, in fact it is the opposite, prosperity will eventually lay the groundworks for democracy to function. Look at the majority of African puppet democracies and India, oh how could I forget Iraq.
As for Tibet, since they were part of Yuan dynasty back 700 years ago or whenever it is, longer than the history of NZ no doubt, opinions of the west will fall on deaf ears within China. What I do hope is that propsperity brought to Tibet by the Chinese government would eventually make them happy.
No doubt China is no superpower, it's economy is still only the 3rd largest, but with such a high savings rate, and a massive government surplus, massive investments in infrastructure, it's looking a lot healther (relatively) than the friends across the globe. It can rely on internal consumption to bail them out.
The US at least has no say thanks to their massive unserviceable national debt so don't count on them in voicing any opinion to China in any capacity (especially now that China is their biggest creditor).