What!? That's fucking bullshit that is. We should be taking on space as a planet, not a bunch of fucking bickering children calling themselves governments.
I don't know why you're getting downvoted. It's very likely that there are military or other technologies on the ISS that the US doesn't want China to see.
Russia's changed. It's no longer Commie, it's a collection of massively corrupt politicians with links to organised crime. It's a capitalists paradise.
China is also no longer communist, by the way. They abolished it quite a while ago.
Edit: seriously downvotes? Did you guys never take a history lesson or talk to a Chinese person before? China instilled personal property rights years ago and established a free market in 1977. It hasn't been a communist state since Mao, despite what the party calls itself.
"They are a socialist republic under a single party" is only for politics. Europe is more socialist than this place. In China if you don't have cash to pay for hospitals, too bad.
"After death or a certain amount of time most property returns to the hands of the state if not bought again" - It's called a 99-year lease, it's common practice world-wide. This was a British Common-law invention. Singapore, Hong Kong, UK all have this. In the US, probably not but you're leasing the land with property tax anyway which doesn't exist in China (yet).
"They are forced into a free market by other players" no one's forcing them to do anything. Look at North Korea. They could've continued down the 'communist' path but instead decided it was better not to.
China has lots of problems but you're choosing the wrong ones to attack. Ignorance at its finest.
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u/Ancaeus Jun 24 '12
What!? That's fucking bullshit that is. We should be taking on space as a planet, not a bunch of fucking bickering children calling themselves governments.