Post 110 (HH):
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->I have heard identical views as yours on a democratic China being a safe bet from some Americans. My take on it may be you are right. Some people have indeed declared that democracy reduces conflict due the government being under people's control. But then we have US a decmocracy entering into many unnecessary wars, often with the American people's support for these wars. So I am not immediately sure how the democratic Chinese may behave.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->My post was obviously just a supposition, based on the Chinese and Taiwanese people I know.
But as the two countries in question - China and the US - are rather different in character, it's hard to make a comparison or make a prediction about one based on the other. The US population is largely christian, and even those of its people that are non-religious are unfortunately very much raised in a christian-conditioned environment (society).
Many religious Americans really believe the US is the promised land gawd gave them (Americans think they've become the chosen people of gawd; an idea stolen more recently from Judaism, and based on Yahweh's promised land for his Jewish followers who were his Chosen People) and that they can lord it over other nations like Adam played 'steward' to the animal creations. This has had generations to seep into even those who are non-religious. They think they really can and have the right to 'set everyone's house in order' and at the same time make it align with their own.
The Chinese are not a christian people, so we don't really know clearly to what extent a democratic C,B,T (non-christian) China will be similar to or different from a 'democratic' US.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->I have heard identical views as yours on a democratic China being a safe bet from some Americans. My take on it may be you are right. Some people have indeed declared that democracy reduces conflict due the government being under people's control. But then we have US a decmocracy entering into many unnecessary wars, often with the American people's support for these wars. So I am not immediately sure how the democratic Chinese may behave.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->My post was obviously just a supposition, based on the Chinese and Taiwanese people I know.
But as the two countries in question - China and the US - are rather different in character, it's hard to make a comparison or make a prediction about one based on the other. The US population is largely christian, and even those of its people that are non-religious are unfortunately very much raised in a christian-conditioned environment (society).
Many religious Americans really believe the US is the promised land gawd gave them (Americans think they've become the chosen people of gawd; an idea stolen more recently from Judaism, and based on Yahweh's promised land for his Jewish followers who were his Chosen People) and that they can lord it over other nations like Adam played 'steward' to the animal creations. This has had generations to seep into even those who are non-religious. They think they really can and have the right to 'set everyone's house in order' and at the same time make it align with their own.
The Chinese are not a christian people, so we don't really know clearly to what extent a democratic C,B,T (non-christian) China will be similar to or different from a 'democratic' US.