Why is India lagging behind China in economic development when India is a democracy while China isn’t?
07.06.2025 20:21
Friends, do you think such a party will be a dictator? If a dictator is like this, what's wrong with a dictator? Can political parties in democratic countries do this? Can a government that serves the people be a dictator?
I think I should have made it clear why the so-called non-democratic China will surpass the democratic India in economic development. To sum up: China has an efficient democratic centralized government, China has citizens who sacrifice their personal interests for the collective interests, and China has long-term plans that do not worry about failure due to regime change. China has the most stable democratic system in my opinion. These are all things that democratic India does not have. Obviously, democracy is not omnipotent, and even democracy is incompetent most of the time.
If the starting point of the two countries is the same, the results are likely to be different. An interesting phenomenon is that all countries recognized as democratic countries by the West are capitalist countries. The parliamentarians and presidents they elect will first serve the interests of capital that support them to power, and the interests of the people who voted for them are rarely within their consideration. To put it bluntly, ordinary people in any country are short-sighted. You can easily cheat their votes by just making a few promises to them. But to let them know the promises you made, you need good publicity, which requires publicity funds, and this money comes from businessmen who support his presidential campaign.
In 2008, I was in the fifth grade. It was a happy and difficult year for us. At the beginning of that year, the southern part of my country suffered a serious ice and snow disaster. Those places did not snow all year round, but a heavy snowstorm suddenly fell at the beginning of that year, which once paralyzed the traffic in many places in the south. The People's Liberation Army dispatched 158,000 soldiers and 400,000 reservists to clear the snow. On May 12 of that year, a magnitude 8.0 earthquake occurred in Sichuan. That was the first time I heard the word earthquake. I remember seeing on TV that the houses in the disaster area were all collapsed. When I heard that there were still many people under those houses, I was particularly shocked. In those days, the People's Liberation Army dispatched 160,000 soldiers to the disaster area for disaster relief. What they dug out from the ruins were not cats and dogs, but fresh lives. There were even 15 brave paratroopers who parachuted from 5,000 meters into the disaster area without any ground guidance, and even the ground situation was not particularly clear. Detect the situation and report the disaster to the follow-up troops. I will never forget that scene. The commander said to the soldiers with a walkie-talkie, "Comrades, the time has come for the Party and the people to test us." Then they jumped out of the cabin and landed on the ground. Fortunately, they had superb skills, no casualties, and provided ground guidance for the subsequent paratroopers.
（This is the martyr Li Xiangqun. The two words "塔山" on his body are because his unit was known as the "Tashan Hero Regiment"）
(China before reform and opening up)
The first generation of leaders in our country were not elected by the people with votes, but if a nationwide general election was held at that time, no one would think that he would lose, and his support rate would probably be close to 100%. You must know that it was the support of the people that enabled the army of only a few hundred thousand people to defeat the national army when the occupied area, population, economic strength, equipment quality and quantity, and even the support of allies were all behind the national army at that time. This is definitely a miracle in the world's military history, and this miracle is the result of the support of the people. Take the Huaihai Campaign as an example. The PLA had 600,000 troops and the KMT had 800,000 troops. The KMT had more advanced equipment than the PLA and had naval and air force support. But the PLA won in the end, and only suffered tens of thousands of casualties, and wiped out this army of nearly one million people. In fact, behind the 600,000 PLA soldiers were 5.4 million ordinary people who transported ammunition and supplies for the frontline soldiers. Because this army had a purpose of "serving the people" at the beginning of its establishment.
I have studied, worked and lived in this country for more than 20 years, almost 30 years, and I have encountered many things. I have witnessed the positive changes of my brother who used to fight and swear every day and bully girls after joining the army and the Communist Party. Although he is still so rude, he will care about people. He is no longer the little devil that everyone hates. He is a brave brother. When we saw the electric meter on fire together, I was even stunned when he rushed up and put out the open fire with his clothes. I have seen that of course I know that this country and the Communist Party still have many imperfections, or there are still many shortcomings, but where is the perfect party?
I have seen many people say that our country's democratic centralism is a more advanced democratic system than the West. I don't think so. On the contrary, I think that Western democracy, in terms of the system itself, is the next stage of democratic centralism, but no country in the West, China, or any country in the world has the foundation for the perfect operation of this democratic system. When people cast their votes for their own immediate interests, this democratic system is destined to fail to achieve its original purpose.
In fact, there is another point that many Westerners cannot understand and is an important reason why China has been able to develop to this day, that is, the vast majority of Chinese and people in the Chinese cultural circle believe that collective interests are higher than individual interests. This is not to say that individual interests are not important, but when collective interests and individual interests are in irreconcilable conflict, we believe that individual interests should be sacrificed to meet collective interests, and of course the collective needs to compensate individuals. This is why China's infrastructure can develop rapidly, because when the country needs our land, we will get a lot of money, and then the country will use this piece of land to invest in construction to increase our income. This is a cumbersome process for democratic countries, and sometimes it is even impossible.
Friends, perhaps you don’t understand why I write about the PLA when talking about democracy, because the PLA is completely controlled by the Chinese Communist Party. As early as 1927, when this army was still called the Red Army, the Communist Party’s party branch had been established at the company level, and the main leaders and outstanding soldiers were all party members. Unlike most political parties, when encountering dangers and difficulties, Communist Party members are always on the front line. We often hear leaders say slogans such as "Communists step out" or "Communists follow me". In life-threatening tasks, they will also form party member assault teams. Li Xiangqun, who was mentioned above and died of exhaustion on the embankment, was a Communist Party member.
The above is my point of view. If I am wrong, I hope you can point it out to me. Don't say rumors and slander, it is meaningless.
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Western rulers are trying to spread a lie that they now believe in themselves - democracy can bring all good things and abandon all bad things. However, this is not the case. For a country, democracy is suitable for a country where citizens are generally well educated, and the citizens of this country have the consciousness of sacrificing the self to achieve the greater self. I know this conflicts with the values believed by Westerners, but this is the reality. If the quality of citizens cannot reach this level, China's democratic centralism may be more suitable for the development of a developing China.
I may not be able to experience those crises deeply because of my age. The following is what I experienced personally. The COVID-19 outbreak in early 2020. I was still in college at that time. Before the Chinese New Year (the Chinese New Year is on January 24, 2020), I was still planning to use the salary I earned from working in the factory during the holidays to travel with my girlfriend before school started. I even booked a homestay and tickets. I remember very clearly that before the Chinese New Year, many people said that there might be an epidemic in the south, some said avian influenza, some said it was influenza, in short, there were all kinds of things. The New Year is a very important festival for us. On New Year's Eve (the night of January 24, 2020 to the early morning of the next day), we younger generations need to greet our elders and say auspicious words, hoping that everything will be safe and smooth in the coming year. On New Year's Eve, we heard the government's call: because of the outbreak in the south, we should celebrate the New Year in place and send New Year greetings via video calls. This is the first time in my memory that the government has guided and intervened in the way of New Year greetings. We all realized that something serious might happen. Except for close relatives, we all chose to send New Year greetings via video. I remember January 25th very clearly. It was the second day of the New Year. On that day, we were supposed to go to my grandmother's house to send New Year greetings to them, but we received an order to stop public transportation and not go out unless necessary. The previous New Year celebration was a suggestion, but this time it was an order. Party members and village cadres were arranged to be on duty at each entrance and exit of the village, prohibiting non-villagers from entering, and persuading villagers to return home if they went out. (That is, the city was closed.) On January 27th, we received another order for people returning from Wuhan or passing through Wuhan to gather at the town government (our village is less than 2.5 kilometers away from the town government). That night, we received another order for people returning from other provinces and cities to register on a government website. I remember that period very clearly. I saw the army running into the transport plane. In China, the intervention of the army means that something big has happened, but at the same time we also know that the intervention of the army means that things will be well resolved. Later, the epidemic gradually eased, and most areas except the epidemic areas were slowly closed. In 2021, I graduated from university and worked as a reporter for a provincial local media. In 2022, an infected person did not implement relevant policies, did not report the places he had visited within a week, forged nucleic acid test reports, and went to many crowded places. As a result, he was confirmed, causing the epidemic to spread rapidly in our city. The government had to implement the city lockdown order, and as a special job, we obtained special passes, three nucleic acid tests a day, and ran around government press conferences, nucleic acid testing points, lockdown points, cabin hospitals, etc., to report the latest epidemic developments and the latest policies for everyone. During that time, I saw many critically ill patients and even dead people. During the entire lockdown, there were less than 100 confirmed cases and less than 1,000 asymptomatic people. You have to know that it is a city with a permanent population of nearly 4 million. At our government press conference, there were deputy mayors of the municipal party committee, leaders of the epidemic prevention center, etc. Most of them were party members, and they provided us with the most accurate advice. I remember that there was an asymptomatic infected person downstairs from my house at that time, but during the entire lockdown, there was no more infected person upstairs, and there was no close contact, and the asymptomatic infected person was quarantined at home according to regulations.
I actually have never understood why people in so-called democratic countries are so superstitious about democracy? What is democracy to them? Is it that vote? Or a belief? Or is it the promises made by politicians to the people that can be abandoned at any time?
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The West has always said that China is a dictatorship, and has intentionally or unintentionally reinforced this concept to the people, and even deliberately fabricated rumors that China's president is a dictator (friend, have you ever seen a dictator with a term of office?). Yes, China's national leaders are not elected by the people one vote at a time, not now, and most likely not in the future, unless the communist society we are talking about is realized, or the number of high-quality citizens can occupy the majority.
（Here is a screenshot of the video of fifteen brave paratroopers skydiving）
（This is the city I was in at the time - Binzhou）
A cruel reality is that so far, no country has gained wealth through democracy, but a large number of countries have experienced slow or even stagnant economic development after moving toward democracy. If you look at the economic development of developed countries, you will find that, except for those countries that have accumulated wealth through colonial plunder, the leaders of countries that have developed through economic development tend to be dictatorial during the period of rapid economic development. This is particularly evident in post-war South Korea and Taiwan Province, and the period when their economic development slowed down was also the time when their dictatorial governments were replaced by elected governments.
（Soldiers build a dike in the water）
We did not give Mao Zedong a vote, but he left us an army to serve us. Can you imagine that when I was two years old, a huge flood disaster broke out in our country, and the water levels of many rivers rose sharply. Once the flood came out of the river, it would destroy a large amount of farmland, houses and a large number of casualties. Our country's leaders deployed 300,000 troops across the country. They were active on various rivers and built dams for the rivers. When the flood broke through the dams and rushed to the city, when the sandbags were ineffective, our soldiers jumped into the dam break hand in hand, blocked the water flow with their bodies, and slowed down the flow so that other soldiers could use sandbags to block the dam break. If the water flow was too fast and people could not stop it, our soldiers drove trucks filled with sand into the water one after another to resist the flood. That year we lost 26 lovely soldiers, and even Li Xiangqun of the Guangzhou Military Region died of overwork while he was sick during the process of resisting sandbags and building embankments. When his father knew about it, he put on his military uniform and completed the embankment task with his comrades.
For example, at the beginning of China's reform and opening up, the country needed foreign capital investment. Like all developing countries, the country passed laws that are conducive to foreign investment. Then the difference comes. China has set up special economic zones, and the central government has allocated funds for the initial investment. Then the local government will choose a place that is considered the most suitable for building a factory to build a factory and attract foreign investment. What will democratic countries do? They will call a meeting of parliamentarians, and the various interest representatives will argue endlessly for the interest groups they represent. If everything goes well, after several months or even years of discussion, they will choose a place that satisfies the interests of many parties but is not necessarily the most suitable place to build a factory. At this time, the factory built by China may have been completed or even put into production, while democratic countries have just completed the site selection. Then democratic countries need to expropriate private land. If the owner of the land is willing to sell, then the price can be discussed. If the owner of the land is unwilling to sell, then everything will have to start all over again.
（Migrant workers supporting the frontline during the Huaihai Campaign）