Wednesday, October 5, 2011

China and political systems

China has a very unique political system. You can call it socialism with Chinese characteristics or capitalism with Chinese characteristics, or whatsoever. The president appears to be the most powerful person, but a handful of members control the power and the succession of presidency.

It will be debated endlessly on the benefits and the problems of such a system. Judging from what China has done in last 30 years, we have to agree it is not a bad system. When this political party is looking for the long term of the country, we do not care how to get re-elected by buying votes to satisfy all.

Judging from the medical care system and contrary to popular belief, Canadians are communists, US are socialists, and China are capitalists.

Every one in Canada gets the same, free health care. In China, if you do not pay, you die.

China is unique in the scale and the speed of moving to a developed country. Many countries like US and China’s competitors are caught by surprise and fail to respond to the changes. China can produce a product far cheaper than from Mexico several miles away from US. China is also challenging the products of higher value in our generation and I cannot imagine what the educated, hard working Chinese kids will do when they grow up.

Singapore is very unique. It is democratic with single party, but you will be punished for not flushing the toilets (they have cameras every where). If you’re not fit, they will force you to exercise or else.

India has been democratic for many years. They are still poor, uneducated… Democratic system may not be right for countries with low literary skills. How can we weigh the vote from a farmer who cannot read and one from the educated folk in the city? Most ‘democratic’ countries in Asia are corrupt. S.Korea and Japan are not too corrupt and probably the reason is their education levels.

What I try to say is every country is different from other countries. Two democratic countries like US and India are quite different in many aspects.

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1 comment:

  1. China have the government for the people concept about 100 years ago. China overthrew the empire (ruled by a king) after a long history and formed a people’s republic (ruled by a president). It has precise meaning in Chinese (king country and people’s country).

    Russia and France both have similar revolutions to overthrow the empires earlier than China. Confucius’s teachings that was followed for generations are pretty much based on helping the kings to rule the kingdom. It is outdated now as we do not have the same concept as the yesterday's kingdoms. His teachings are still valid to today's society.

    Many countries like Britain and Japan still maintain the royal rule but they are governed by ministers (usually elected). The royal families become the parasites of the societies.

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