Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> Yep yep.  Also, having been there and having relatives there, I think 
> the amount of repression is vastly overblown. It seems to be a 
> benevolent dictatorship (so far), and most of the people really 
> appreciate what the government is doing for them.

  What I really don't understand is that China is *supposed* to have some
kind of communist (or similar) government, yet you couldn't see that there
*at all*.

  I have absolutely no experience nor sure knowledge about how life was
in the Soviet Union when it was still fully communist, but if I'm not
completely mistaken, it at least worked at some level, in that the vast
majority of people had a home and some kind of living (and, on the other
hand, there were no rich snobs). The same is probably even truer for Cuba
(at least deducing from their health care and schooling system).

  In China, however, the difference between poor and rich was extremely
glaring. On one hand there were people with brand new expensive Mercedes
cars, cellphones and all that crap, and at the same time there were
enormous amounts of beggars living in underway passages (literally!) which
didn't look like they owned anything else than the rags they were wearing.

  If China is supposed to be some kind of communist nation, from what
I saw it doesn't work at all.

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