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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lewis20126" data-source="post: 3264006" data-attributes="member: 37060">China's near stabilization of its population demonstrates one obvious advantage of government by polit bureau or technocratic dictorship, ie the abiity to implement long term and potentially unpopular policies across decades.  Such policies cannot be implemented in democracies, given the short electoral cycles.  China may have substantial problems ahead (see Ponzi schemes thinking above) but the current model of government will enable them to address these with more coherence than we are able to in "democratic" Europe.  I think there will be national parks of conservation value in China in 100 years,  I'm not sure that will the case in many other countries in the "Old World".cheers, alan</blockquote>