BartSimpson BartSimpson:
Nope, I just want to see their government fall. A non-communist China would probably eclipse the US economically in a heartbeat.
I used to be highly critical of India's government for being only degrees of difference better than China and they changed to fit the times and India is better off. There's hope in India these days and they came a long way in just the past 10 years.
It'd be wonderful to say the same for China someday.
China is about as communist as Canada is. Their economic growth has been due to adoption of capitalist style economics (private ownership of property/business, entrepeneurship, etc.), not just low cost labour. It still may be a dictatorship, but the only thing on the minds of most Chinese people these days is how to make a buck and get rich.
Removing the current Chinese government is not necessarily a solution, as it easily could be followed by a weak one (think the imperial government after western intervention or the republic run by the KMT after 1911), especially if the southerners/coastal citizens aren't interested in helping out the poorer central/western Chinese.
The world had a weak China for the better part of two centuries and it was that that got us a Communist China in 1949. One might argue that constant western interventionism in China in the mid to late 19th century (and subsequent half-assed assistance to the KMT after Sun Yat-Sen died) created the elements necessary for the Communists to get into power in 1949. Perhaps if it had been in the West's interests to not continually weaken China, they never would have gotten to power. However, the West liked a weak Japan and so they did their best to undermine it at nearly every opportunity.
And while the world has in general been a pretty good place with the US running the show (although if you're an Iraqi you may beg to differ), I think it's time to restore a balance of power to the world order. The US (and by extension, the West), can still be top dogs, but with some rivals there might be less unilateralism than there is now.
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