Religion

it’s easy to criticize and outright dismiss China as a communist country. However, I think it’s more of a pragmatism than communism. If you looks at the facts such as declining poverty rates, improving education, life expectancy, growing economy, etc. - you would say that the country must be doing something right. Then you have folls who blame China for lack of environmental regulations, blame it for pollution, etc. How convinient that most manufacturing from the developed world was moved to China and so it is unfair to apply same rules to them, they are manufacturing stuff for the entire world. Also, worth noting, Chinese people and culture are non-violent, their citizens don’t own weapons or kill kids in schools. Despite communism, chinese traditions are strong. This is different from Soviet Union, where everything pre-communism was destroyed and replaced. And thanks god chinese are largerly non-religous, because only religion can make good people do bad stuff. Although I consider communism as a religion, chinese communism is worlds different from soviet union style cause China has market economy and they are free to travel abroad.