> Because it’s an authoritarian dictatorship that forces people to do things to achieve its goals ?
That's just part of the puzzle. What makes CPC different from most dictatorships is like NK or SU is that most of ruling elite of CPC is made up of engineers. Along with mandatory CPC ideology leaning, they also have notion that a developed nation is one that builds things. Bankers and Lawyers are ranked way down on power rankings.
On the other hand, most of American ruling elite are lawyers or bankers. So their worldview is mostly rule lawyering, interest earning, hedge fund etc.. Power brokers in these fields make the rules. Builders and engineers rank pretty low in power totem pole.
According to the chart it started under Deng, and that’s also around when China’s current phase of development started.
We forget these days that Chinese communism was a tire fire for the first half century. In 1990 China had the same per capita GDP (PPP) as India. Now China is 4x India.
Them being forced to do things due to the dictatorship is not a compelling argument, as people are forced to do things in Western societies too, via other external factors like risk of poverty and hunger.
I think we're so far down the discussion thread, that we've forgotten that we're skeptical about whether Apple will be held accountable to their American investment promises...
For anyone curious, the context here is that he said he'd be a dictator only on day one.
First, even one day of dictatorship is in direct violation of the Constitution.
Second, we're coming up on day 200 and the Trump administration continues to assert an expansive view of executive power far beyond any historical precedent and to degrade the systems designed to check that power, following a 100% run of the mill authoritarian playbook.
Not sure if intentional, but you trimmed the context. The question was about whether he'd abuse power to get retribution. Here's the link to the start of the video: https://youtu.be/dQkrWL7YuGk?t=1
What you trimmed off:
> Hannity: Under no circumstances, you're promising America tonight, you would never abuse power as retribution against anybody
> Trump: Except for Day One... look he's going crazy... Except day one.
> Hannity: Meaning?
> Trump: I'm going to close the border and we're going to drill, drill, drill
Update from day 199:
The border is closed (partially illegally) [1], US oil rigs are down [2], and he is in fact abusing power as retribution against dozens of people and institutions.
It’s an authoritarian president that forces Apple to make these promises, even though they will most likely never fulfil them. It’s all just one big play to appease to Trumps love for big numbers.
