There is one 'Red Line' in the West that can never be
crossed. That is telling the world that Communism is doing better than
Democracy. That reality is happening with Communist China, but the
fantasy that democracy will always triumph communism is still being
trumpeted to no avail. Otherwise, why is there such a need for the USA
and the West to counter China economically at all costs today? Why is
there all the hubris about having to protect democracy around the world
if it is still a triumphant system? When companies lost the competition,
advertising is necessary and logical.
And that is why India can
never be the next China, not to talk about surpassing China. India is,
in fact, handicapped and stifled by its democratic system of Government,
where even farting needs the consensus of the voters. The actions of
the Indian Government are held hostage by the need to cater to voters
every few years. Things do not move smoothly in every endeavor, be it
high speed rails, overhauling its agricultural system, securing land for
infrastructures on top of a cumbersome administrative system inherited
from the British that hampers progress.
China is able to
progress so fast because the Government is not held hostage by voters
and partisan needs, but solely catering to national interest and needs.
The Government charts the direction and the private sector investors
follow the route set up. Every investor knows what and where to invest
in, what and where the priorities are and are confident that the
direction taken is not going to falter and support hampered. That is why
China dominates in most sectors of the global economy, be it
shipbuilding, motor vehicles production, manufacturing and now putting
all the priorities into semiconductors.
If India thinks that the
USA will allow it to rise like China to challenge the USA, it is
mistaken. They have only to look at Japan and Germany, and now China to
draw its conclusion.
Anonymous
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Democracy is a system made for the top 1%, by the 1% and for the 1%, with all the wealth accumulated in their hands. The rest of the 90%, give or take the remaining 9% are still relatively wealthy, are not benefiting from the democratic system over the centuries. In fact, poverty, homelessness, drug infestation are getting worse rather than better.
The USA had all the advantages of prosperity for all, having the privilege to print toilet papers at will, but still is unable to eradicate poverty at the bottom of the food chain. Democracy had the ideal of being a system that cares for all, rich or poor, the human rights accorded to them to have a decent life of adequate housing, healthcare and food (not from soup kitchens), but it seems that has now been hijacked to caring only for the super-rich to enable them to get even richer. From millionaires the became billionaires and now breeding a few trillionaires to boot. Is such a system sustainable?
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