Would China have been able to rise again without Mao and the Communist Party of China? How else could they have approached industrialization?
>>1170150
They would be like India if they hadn't industrialized under Deng
>>1170150
The Qing could have industrialized back in the early 1800s had they not been retarded.
>>1170150
They were on their way for a bit during the early 20th century, however, post WW2 saw an end to anything non Mao-approved, so it's pretty unclear trying to see China w/o the red lenses, even more than, say, the U.S.S.R.
>>1170150
Protectionism of infant industries. Import substitution. Other protectionist policies. A lot of failures in industrialization are caused by being forced to subscribe to global free trade. In reality, every country that has successfully industrialized has protected industries to allow them to develop and then transitioned to the free market. The communist party used a lot of these policies and still does.
one of the great what-ifs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Yat-sen
>Sun's chief legacy resides in his developing of the political philosophy known as the Three Principles of the People: nationalism (non-ethnic, independence from imperialist domination), democracy (up to Western standards), and the people's livelihood (free trade and Georgist tax reform
unfortunately China devolved into warlordism and he was never able to unify
