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Good points, Izico.
However, the industrial revolution in England, deemed the first in the world, wasn't as smooth as some may have thought. It eventually succeeded and most importantly not as bloodshed as French one. But it can hardly be called smooth as peasants lost their land and "forced" to move to the cities. My view on China's reform is more towards they kinda follow England's footpath, strong central governance (for god sake, England back then wasn't a democracy) from the top (minority groups), large degree of urbanization, farming land seizure for industrial uses, inequity etc. One thing China hasn't exercised and I highly doubt it will like other pioneers in the reform for growth field is government-backed, commercially funded, foreign armed robbery, i.e. military colonization. Surely in recent years China has been forming a large presence in Africa but by all mean so far the initiative is through military practices. Similar examples can be found by Japanese and Korean farmers supported by their government to settle in Brazil and a few other central/south American nations in the late 60s. The settlements are for mutual gains between involved countries.
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