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John Lennon recorded “no one told me” on August 7, 1980. In the song he said famously to the listeners “they are starving back to China, so they end what you have”.
It was recently reported that since the 1980s, 800 million Chinese have increased by poverty. Stop and think about it, especially in relation to Lennon’s lyrics.
While there are 5,500 McDonald’s in China today, in 1980 there were no. The first China -based store opened in October 1990. The Chinese eat.
While communism is the ideology of despair, and by Lennon, starvation, its opposition is the material of abundance. McDonald’s everywhere they seem abundant. Because China was communist, food was rare. This food is not uncommon now tells us that China is no longer communist.
Indeed, what else could increase acquisition (including a special love for American abundance)? Unless the Chinese people are superhuman so that they are uniquely capable of overcoming collectivism, it must be said that collectivism has long ceased to determine the Chinese experience.
This is a useful distinction that needs to be made as politicians and experts in the US continue to attack Chinese businesses to keep the like-American-American companies operating. For the most part, Americans wanted China to abandon communism back, just for the country to do just that.
Evidence that supports the claim that China has thrown communism into the proverbial trash can be found in the growing number of businesses coming from China, only to expand worldwide. Think of Shein, Temu, Baidu, Alibaba, Mybank, Tiktok and countless others that were not mentioned with even more on the road.
What we see in China is proof of what we have believed in a long time: when people are free, they prosper. The previous truth is almost trite is so simple, but it is true. The Chinese were not previously desperately poor and starving because they had no talent or driving, but because an unnatural, anti-human ideology fell harshly.
Fortunately, China is no longer communist. There is no doubt that the ruling political party is the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), but the name no longer fits into ideology. Although the CCP oversees China, it now oversees a market economy.
Yes, the CCP is no longer communist. Things have changed because opinions do. Americans know it well. A Republican Party that is very much linked to free trade and respect for businesses is increasingly embracing invoices while attacking the best and brightest of us. The change in the Republican Party is not rarely disclosed in its support for the political harassment of businesses with Chinese backgrounds prosperous in the US
The explanation used to prosecute Chinese companies is the “authorized obedience to the Chinese Communist Party”. It is just a covered excuse for protectionism, turning over the happy fact that the Chinese Communist Party is no longer communist. Check out the 800 million that have escaped poverty since Lennon recorded “no one told me”.
Lennon’s words have a dated quality on them precisely because the Chinese eat. And they eat because China is no longer communist. Let us celebrate this truth, instead of harassing and banning businesses that confirm it.
