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'Do you think Britain won the Opium Wars because they had smarter politicians??'
The emperor of China wrote to Queen Victoria asking if she would allow her subjects to be enslaved to Opium addiction and whether she approved of The East India Companies campaign of doing this to millions of Chinese citizens.
Queen Victoria never answered.
The British Navy and its power projection capability were crucial to the subjugation of China during and post the Opium Wars and its capture by The East India Company and all who followed its lead...
The East India Company had more power than the British government. A classic example of corporate power motivated purely by profit motive over riding governance, ethics and 'free markets', resulting in mass human suffering and market rigging.
China has not forgotten this...even if you have.
The East India Company had more power than the British government.
EXACTLY. Hence the superior naval technology. Victoria's decisions had nothing to do with it. So why do you think a government is necessary for efficiency? The more "governance" you have, the worse your technological development will be.
Why would you equate the modern day PRC with the Qing? Is it because the PRC is just as bad?
I did not and do not equate the current CCP with the Qing.
The Qing was a weak and declining dynasty riven with corruption and outdated ideology.
The CCP is led by engineers and has developed a logical program of development recognising the reality of western imperialism which hit the Qing and China so brutally.
The combination of self seeking private enterprise and a government that directs that energy is greater than where either dominates the other.
Private enterprise cannot develop a strategy that sees the entire nations best interests as its priority, and government cannot act only upon a profit motive.
Good government employs taxation and investment in development of the nations resources from the perspective of the nation as a whole and in relation to its position in relation to other nations.
For example China can see it has significant potential human resources and can invest in their development to advance Chinas overall productivity.
It can and has developed a modern culture where engineering is highly respected and emphasised in the education system because engineering vital to manufacturing and infrastructure development.
China now leads the world in engineering as the result of a deliberate program of investment in skills, institutions, equipment and infrastructure that only a government could logically lead.
Private enterprise has no such mandate or motives to enable development in such a manner.
Private enterprise however, when provided with an economy where engineering skills, infrastructure and capacity are developing strongly can and will and does adopt those resources as it can profit from them and is structured and inherently disposed toward doing so.
So in China today electricity is less than half the cost of any other major manufacturing nation- Private enterprise has an immediate advantage.
There are multiple skilled engineers and technicians available.
They are employed.
The economy thrives.
The combination of good government and private enterprise is powerful.
The inappropriate domination or either is toxic.
It is a subtle formula, not a simplistic 'markets fix everything' one.
At its core it requires a considerable unity of purpose and within the population.
Some thing the west has lost.
Something China appears to still retain.
That unity is something that sustained wealth tends to erode.
The rise and fall of empires is the result.
The Qing was a weak and declining dynasty riven with corruption and outdated ideology.
Yeah, sounds a lot like the PRC. They got colonized by a foreign power, in this case Russian Marxists. That "mixed economy" bullshit is 100 years old. And they justify it with some vague appeal to collective harmony, while they let Japan and the US win the Bitcoin accumulation race. And now you'll be blindsided when it turns out that for some reason our military is better than yours, and claim that we only won because we're evil.
Private enterprise cannot develop a strategy that sees the entire nations best interests as its priority
Wrong.
Look at the US and Europe. The US chose private enterprise over government. Europe chose "good governance." So Europe is committing suicide while the US is the hottest country on earth.
Look at China where good government (in regard to economic development) results in USA and Europe unable now to compete with Chinas well governed highly productive mixed economy.
The US economy is largely reliant upon debt and death- the export of fiat debt and military equipment. Legacy institutional and technology which is swiftly being superceded by Shahed Drones and mBridge.
The US manufacturing economy is a very poor shadow of what it was 50 years ago.
You cannot even make your weapons anymore because China has cut the supply of refined rare earths.
Good luck intercepting Irans $5000 drones with your non existent $5 million dollar Interceptor missiles.
US empire insolvency and collapse is imminent and the Zionist bankers know it.
The US economy is largely reliant upon debt and death
Sureeee get your excuses ready.
USA and Europe
Don't even put these in the same sentence. The UK, Spain, France, and Italy are each poorer than Mississippi.
When the British Empire lost its global hegemony and USA took over the Jews shifted their operation to USA.
The British finally only lost their global monetary hegemony when they challenged Egypts nationalisation of the Suez canal and USA refused to back them.
Now that USA is close to insolvency the Jews are building their own Greater Israel Empire because China will not be their lapdog proxies.
Trump is losing in the Strait of Hormuz.
You have no interceptors left.
No refined rare earths to make more.
Learn from history.
The Jews are using you.
And not just the Jews. The gulf states are in on this.
Zionism is physical semitism. Marxism is spiritual semitism, which is much worse.
You have US derangement syndrome. It's not all about us. Take the US out of it for a minute. Imagine you're an Iranian, so the IRGC kills you for thought crime. And as you're crossing the Rainbow Bridge, an alien asks if you would like them to kill and replace the regime that killed you, or let the IRGC kill the rest of your family and friends and stay in charge for the next 10,000 years?
The purpose of the IRGC, since they're a tyrannical mess of a system that no one would adopt voluntarily, is presumably to prevent Western agression. Well, obviously, they failed. We can wipe out the population at the click of a button. So what's the point of the IRGC?? If the IRGC stepped down then Iran wouldn't have to worry about getting bombed. They're the problem.
This is nothing at all like Britain and Egypt. A lot of Americans are Persian. This is really an internal affair that you're meddling in.
The lead in technology came from private sector innovation. "Governance" is meaningless. The proper role of government is to get out of the way. Do you think Britain won the Opium Wars because they had smarter politicians?? You can't legislate yourself into a better navy. Technology is a product of individual minds working in the private sector.