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This is false attribution.
There's no way to verify how other political system would have worked for China. Maybe it would have worked even better? Taiwan for one is richer, stronger and happier than China per capita so does that mean dictatoriship -> democracy is a better system? Do you see the flaw in this attribution logic now? So, unless you have a time machine...
Everything in that sentence is factually untrue, I need to get some of the stuff you're smoking because it must be crazy strong.
It's very easy to know. India and China have similar landmass, population, and got their independence at around the same time.
The difference between the two is that China's people democracy is an objectively superior system to bourgeois dictatorships they have in India and Taiwan.
It's ridiculous to compare mainland China with Taiwan, as that island is incredibly small and therefore much, much faster to develop, and it received a lot in investments from the USA as they need a strong ally at the PRC's borders to support their hegemony. Look at south Korea for another example.
Do you want me to keep going?
And how do you determine that? By feeling the vibes? There are way to many variables to attribute all success to a single one. It's just not scientifically testable. I'd like to point you to this brilliant economic nobel prize award of this year that did use science to prove the effectiveness of political systems in a way. This is sort of scientific proof we need to really understand the value of these political systems but until we have evidence like that or a time machine we might as well be yelling at clouds here.
Actually it’s very easy to know. By design, capitalism concentrates most of the reward among a small number of privileged few.
And people with good sense judge a country by how well it’s working people are doing- not by how much more wealth a few people have been able to hoard.