tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post8424485808549723129..comments2024-03-06T06:34:42.881-05:00Comments on EconoSpeak: On The Centennial Of The Chinese Communist PartyUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-76937876479469327012021-07-15T09:49:49.841-04:002021-07-15T09:49:49.841-04:00Here I fully agree with you that the CCP must be r...Here I fully agree with you that the CCP must be ready to acknowledge some past calamities, especially when they can claim to have gone beyond them, overcome them.Andre Surkishttp://www.confiduss.com/en/jurisdictions/china/politics/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-42708912536884678782021-07-05T08:59:32.242-04:002021-07-05T08:59:32.242-04:00Point well taken, Tom. Of course we do not know. ...Point well taken, Tom. Of course we do not know. <br /><br />And Taiwan had some advantages upfront that are rarely discussed. Some of these have to do with it having been ruled by Japan for half a century, with that having two effects. One was that the Japanese had built some important infrastructure. The other was that because much of the land had been taken over by the Japanese, it made it easier for Chiang Kai-shek to carry out the "land to the tiller" land reform that he should have done on the mainland.<br /><br />Of course the other part of this argument is that when it became clear how well Taiwan was doing, PRC could have imitated ROC more, but did not, although arguably Dengist reforms moved in that direction. But it is seriously telling that income equality is much greater in Taiwan than PRC, which has greater equality than does Hong Kong, a major problem there and one PRC government is now emphasizing as they end political and civil liberties there. rosserjb@jmu.eduhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09300046915843554101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-77451644813194218282021-07-04T17:38:59.365-04:002021-07-04T17:38:59.365-04:00I'm not sure about your argument at the end co...I'm not sure about your argument at the end comparing the PRC to the ROC.<br /><br />The question is do you think China would be in a better place if Chiang Kai-Shek had won the civil war? <br /><br />It's a massive counter-factual, but the Kuomintang were not doing a great job before they lost the civil war. <br /><br />And surely Taiwan's relatively good performance has also been significantly influenced by the PRC threat, which has induced greatly improved political economic behavior?Thomas I Palleynoreply@blogger.com