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Originally Posted by Ronin4hire
The only thing your empirical evidence proves is that Democracy alone can't fix economic instability. I never meant to imply it could. But to assume that it inherently hinders it is false.
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No not at all. Democracy doesn't hinder economic prosperity at all, but IF and ONLY IF there is social stability, infrastructure and above all education.
China is trying to fix the education, infrastructure and poverty bit at the moment before letting too much democracy floating around. It wants to do it quickly, so democracy without these preconditions will be a hindrance in that case, hence ruling with an iron fist. The Chinese people are quite happy since economy is booming, the government must be something right.
Now western part of China including Tibet hasn't boomed like the east coast but that's what infrastructure investment (tibetan railway) and invest west campaign are for. Tibetans looking at hans and their filthy money, i'd be rioting too! China I hope will address this economic disparity which is the root cause of all these sad faces.
Just look at India for a classic case of democracy too early with no education.