China

From 1949, believed that, in the common interest of society, hundreds of millions of people could be led to higher level than individual selfishness. The Chinese experience in search of an egalitarian society charmed many people. The Third World countries admired his fighting spirit and self-sufficiency. Western economists reached full employment recorded in the field, and envied their disciplined workforce in the industry. With greater internal transparency, resulting from the termination of the call Cultural Revolution, it was clear that not lived in China, the past three decades, many reasons encantamento22. In fact, at that time, he had hung the elitism and corruption among party leaders and government. The slow progress made in the economy had shown not so easy to develop with their own resources, without the infusion of investment, technology or foreign aid.
In its international relations, it is known, the Republic since its founding in 1949, had maintained a vast army and armed militia and developed the atomic bomb. China has had conflicts with the Soviet Union and India and frictions with Japan, with respect to the Senkaku Islands, and Vietnam, as the Spratlys. It was not, therefore, totally country "peace loving" - as goods educated tour guides, with their uniforms "Mao-style" disseminated in Beijing, foreign visitors. Domestically, in that it knew better the real situation
Chinese were reduced even gains considered, for example, relative to control. Was huge, it turned out, the cost in terms of human rights, prohibition of marriages before 20 years and mandatory one-child per couple. This is not to deny, however, the great achievements of the Maoist period, nor the deeds of the Chinese people. A country that in the first half of the twentieth century, had been ravaged by internal wars, was in the early 1980s, unified, despite the leadership crisis resulting from the Cultural Revolution. How was it possible to verify, China fed and clothed his people. A