In Part 6, I provided evidence that China is making progress at improving the integrity of its government and legal system.
Returning to the topic of literacy, why would China improve the literacy rate if the government didn’t want to become a republic since illiteracy is the greatest tool of a dictator?
Illiterate people are easier to brainwash, fool and control.
Imagine the effort to raise literacy from 20% in the late 1970s to more than 90% today. Then give birth to a legal system that China has never had before. Source: History of Literacy in China
Why waste this time if the goal wasn’t to build a republic with more freedom for the people?
In addition, China rebuilt all of its major cities, took an electrical grid in 1950 that produced a half megawatt of electricity in a few cities and spread that system over a country about the size of America in a few decades to serve a population of 1.3 billion people.
In comparison, the electrical grid in America took “much” longer to build.
Experts say that the growth that has taken place in China in the last three decades has never happened before in the history of global civilization.
If China wanted to stay a totalitarian government, why bother?
After all, North Korea lives in a state of never ending Cultural Revolution. The people starve and have few freedoms. Why not copy them? Yet, after Mao, the Chinese repudiated Revolutionary Maoism and opened China to world trade. In fact, China is buying food from all over the world to make sure the people do not starve.
Today, millions of mainland Chinese are global tourists spending billions of dollars in European democracies and in the U.S. There are also about one hundred thousand Chinese students in U.S. colleges and universities exposed to American ideas and democracy.
Shouldn’t China’s leaders be worried about this exposure to democracy or is it possible this is what the Party wants?
Return to Growing Cautiously Into a Modern Republic – Part 4
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Lloyd Lofthouse is the award-winning author of the concubine saga, My Splendid Concubine & Our Hart. When you love a Chinese woman, you marry her family and culture too.
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