[Fricken]

Neither China or the West handled the transition to industrial civilization well. A key difference is that most Chinese died due to incompetence on the part of their leaders, but in the west they mostly murdered one another on purpose.

Once again a Nazi is in charge of the western world's most advanced rocket program.

[stx5]

doesn't "murdered one another on purpose" equals to "incompetence on the part of their leaders"?