For what it ' s worth . . .

 Garrett Jones:Reminder: Income per person in China is about one-third that of the Taiwan. And about 1/4 that of the US. China is, to a first approximation, a scaled up, less successful, late-arriving Taiwan. If the other team had won the civil war, China today would likely be better off.Weird to see anyone treating the China model as outright appealing. Aside from the impressive scale, China ' s total performance is weak by the standards of countries with high test scores, high ancestral experience with technology. A bias toward changes over levels I guess.A gloss on this is that China has been catching up lately, but yes, the cult of Mao set them back decades.
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