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'One of the things everybody in the West knows about China is that it is not a
democracy, and is instead a regime run with an iron fist by a single entity,
the Chinese Communist Party, whose leadership rarely acts transparently,
running the country without the need for primary elections, alternative
candidacies, etc.
In general, those of us who live in democracies, with relatively transparent
electoral processes, tend to consider the Chinese system undesirable, little
more than a dictatorship where people have no say in who governs them.
That said, among the "advantages" of the Chinese system is that because the
leadership never has to put its legitimacy to the vote, it can carry out very
long-term planning in the knowledge that another administration isn't going to
come along and change those plans.
Obviously, I put "advantages" in quotation marks because, as democrats, most of
my readers would never be willing to sacrifice their freedom for greater
planning, but there is no doubt that China, since its system works like this
and its population seems to have accepted it for generations, intends to turn
this into a comparative advantage, the term used in business when analyzing
companies.
It turns out that China's capacity for long-term planning is achieving
something unheard of in the West: it seems the country reached peak carbon
dioxide and greenhouse gas emissions in 2023, and that the figures for 2024,
driven above all by a determined increase in the installation of renewable
energies, are not only lower, but apparently going to mark a turning point.'
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
