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by qwytw 502 days ago
That's Russia, not China. Russia is a petrostate run owned by corrupt dictator and his oligarch cronies. It really has nothing going for it whatsoever besides its natural resources.

China is in a very different spot. They did what the USSR failed, showed a an authoritarian/totalitarian state can keep up with Western democracies or even innovate much faster than them.