本帖最後由 peter236 於 2009-6-6 00:12 編輯
Funny how a 50 cents poster such as yourself is trying to use Taiwan as an example, because in my mind, Taiwan is a model example of how democracy and freedom has flourished. From the old authoritari ...
Lik 發表於 2009-6-5 21:47 
Lik, by using Taiwan as an example, you basically agree to China's plan of economic reforms before democratic reforms. If you truly support Taiwan's path to democracy, then you should be smart enough to realize that mainland China is now going along the same path. Taiwan had experienced rapid economic growth long before they had any presidential election. It wasn't like the KMT allowed democratic election in Taiwan at he very beginning. But eventually they allowed democratic election. The same thing will happen in China. Economic growth provides a sound basis for democratic reforms.
Notice the number of decades between Taiwan's 228 incident and Lee Deng Hui's apology.
In fact, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong had experience rapid economic growth long before they had any form of democratic election.
The per capita GDP of Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong are way higher than that of slumdog millionaire India. Even mainland China has way higher per capita GDP than slumdog millionaire India. |
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