@tobentopauloo@MillineredMark@alexcross@realmadriden Chinese lives improved with opening up, trade, global cooperation, and more personal freedom. Compared with Mao's era, China became less totalitarian, not more. If anything, that proves the opposite of your claim: freedom and openness, not dictatorship, made life better.
@tobentopauloo@MillineredMark@alexcross@realmadriden Of course China is authoritarian. My point is that it was far more totalitarian under Mao. Living standards improved dramatically after China became less totalitarian and introduced economic reforms. So no, dictatorship itself didn't make people's lives better.
@tobentopauloo@MillineredMark@alexcross@realmadriden No you are wrong, China is going well because "open to the world policy" starting at 1979, which is after Mao died. From 1949-1979, same government, more dictatorship. The reason China is doing well is because of " less dictatorship". Stop misleading. I am from China.