Tag: Deng Xiaoping

China turning into a Potemkin Country?

On By rushbabe49In Authoritarianism, business, Culture, Economics, government, History, Random Musings About LifeLeave a comment

I came across this story in the Epoch Times about a mostly-unknown crisis in Communist China. Their population is rapidly aging, and since the huge re-estate collapse their "social insurance" program is in big trouble. Due to the disastrous one-child policy, which led to female infanticide as well as a shrinking overall population, there is …

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No one should ever say “China” again.

On By rushbabe49In Authoritarianism, business, Crime and Punishment, Culture, Economics, government, History, Media bias, Politics in the Age of Trump1 Comment

That is, without the preceding adjective “Communist”. Many people seem to have forgotten that our main adversary is, and has always been, a Communist country, ruled by a hard-line Dictator, Xi Jinping. Since he came to power in 2012, he has been rolling back the economic reforms of his predecessor Deng Xiaoping, and instituting social …

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