[tonylinn80]

Plenty of democratic countries are also poor, hostile and struggling in all aspects. China, for example, are doing much better overall compared to democratic India, and arguably Taiwan at this point. India has been democratic since long time ago, but the government had been heavily corrupted. Little improvements can be done under their democratic system. Taiwan basically entered a downward spiral in all aspects since it fully adopted democracy. The recent elections are full of shit shows like that in US. People are getting more and more angry with their government. If Singapore and China were operating under a democratic government like US, there's no way they can achieve what they achieved so far, and they'd probably be just irrelevant right now.

[throwawayepgpp]

China is doing well, really? Are you ignoring the literal billion of people living below the most abject standards for poverty in the West, or do you just think people outside cities don't exist?

[paraditedc]

I don't know where you got your stats from, but Wikipedia says otherwise.

In the most strict definition of poor (living under 1.90USD a day), only 0.7% of Chinese are poor. Even if you go up to 3.20USD per day, it's still only 7%, way less than billion.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_percent...