[jollybean]

Depends on competency, commitment etc..

Post-war countries tend to be best served by a truly benevolent, uncorruptable, honest broker who can carry out the necessary plans, which should be fairly obvious if there is decent planning.

China was actually doing well when Xi came along, and there could be a very strong argument that as long as Xi stayed mostly at arms length that they would be doing just fine.

Xi is stepping in hard and it will likely hurt.

Singapore is a kind of authoritarian state and they're amazing in at least many ways.

That said, Putin was mostly hands off on the economy and Russia is not healthy economically, were it not for Gas and Oil they wouldn't be in great shape.