politics

While I am not even remotely educated enough to weigh in on whether China Good or Bad, I can say that "it worked" is not a good defense of anything in nearly any context. The United States still exists as the world's (fading, but still) premier warmonger-bully and has for hundreds of years. That's not going to make me endorse any of their economic policies. I know there are probably other arguments in defense of the PRC's foreign policy and decisions over the years, I am not trying to argue China Bad. I in fact think it is probably Quite Good. I'm just also a nerd who wants to point out an argument that doesn't make sense to me.

That’s all you need to know. The history of modern PRC is shaped by its unique position of being on a precipice and caught between the imperialist struggles between the US and the USSR during the Cold War.

The history of the CPC was allying with another party that had spend almost a decade trying and almost succeeding in exterminating the CPC, only for the CPC to turn against that party once their common foe has been defeated and the other party had outlived its usefulness.

I've always admired China because of their geopolitical strategy and history has proven them right. I wish Mexico has a similar strategy moving forward, we are in an unique position to benefit from China/US cold war.