I don't want to hurt your patriotic feelings, but that hundred millions was in poverty dur to the thousands years old Chinese culture and governance.
Mao recognised it, and that the Chinese way of life is a dead end ( it wasn't that hard after hundred years of humilitation from small european countries) and started to destroy the old China to make something more competitive.
It was a partial disaster and partial succes, claiming millions of life, but this is the issue if you have one bg, homogen country, centraly controled, not dozens of small experiments next to each other, learning from each success ( and failure).
Europe is undoubtly the most succesfull from every standoint in the past thousand years from all civilizations.
If I walk around the world I can talk with every country using european languages, in America practicaly all county main language came from Europe, and the most succesfull countries has european setlers (like USA). I can read the Chinee engineering drawings, because they using the rules developed by Europeans .
I drive regulary next to the birthplace/living place/alma mater ofthe naming persons of the SI unites.
China started to be succesfull when it started to learn European law,scence, technology and trade. That pulled out from the poverty hundred millions of Chinese.
You are welcome : )
Well, for those thousands of years, there was no definition of poverty and no data so your claims are in the dump as usual.
Otherwise, I would say, all civilizations have their ups and downs. For some time, Europe was, as you said, dominant in science, technology, trade. Before then, China was dominant; gunpowder, compass, paper, printing. You're welcome.
Then, Europe took over. And now, Europe is in the gutters again. So as I said, Europe is like an old man, reveling in the past because its modern day and foreseeable future is sad.
My mistake, I haven't checked the GDP for a whle, it going up and down.
Generaly, the screwed up EU structure causing the slow growth in many countries.
As soon as the EU disintegrating, OR changing the structure / financing this block will disapear.
And anyway, don't foget, China just started the walk the europe(usa) walking for hundred years : )
It doesn't take too much effort to manage an economy/ country/ social stability during the high growth : )
It you think EU growth is high/fast, then you haven't checked GDP in many years. And it only goes up and down in Europe. In China, it goes up and up and more up. I don't care what you blame it on; get it fixed before you lecture others.
China's just started walking but it's already walking so much faster and better. I guess we're fast learners, but the most important thing is China's system is not European or American; it is a combination of all the things that work put together with a Chinese characteristic.
It works a bit diferently , this nations state thingy is a new development. In europe the countries used to be organised around sphere of infulence, controling different nationalities and languages, not as pure nation state.
Now with the EU it is changing back, only issue is the EU seriously flawed organisation.
I work now with polish /english/spanish/portugese/slovakian/french/russian (he is a lithuanian citizen : D ) and so on persons. Nice, isn't it? Like in the old times of the 19th century.
I don't care. Blah blah excuses. Sounds like European style to me LOL. All I see is poor results. You think you can "change back"? Show it, don't dream it.
I don't care who the hell you work with. Sounds terrible, absolute nightmare. I like to work with all Chinese, so we speak the same language, share the same culture, and fight for the same goal. That's what I call nice.
