china has done little to make any country rich
look no further than Myanmar or North Korea
Both North Korea and Myanmar are better off than most American neighbors. From Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras to Haiti. The list is endless.
If you have to choose to live as an average citizen in Mexico and North Korea, which one would you choose? I would surely choose North Korea over Mexico anyday. Less freedom and perhaps lower standard of living in general, I agree, but far more advanced in education, science and technology. And the people are clean, civilized and disciplined, which I would appreciate over the jungle "freedom" in Latin America. They do not kill others on the streets.
If North Korea opens their economy like China, they would become another South Korea within 30 years. But Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay and even the US? Without good price of natural resources, they will slowly become kind of today Brazil.
Do not forget that most, if not all, these American neighbours were once rich thank to natural resources, while North Korea and Myanmar never were. But then they follow the American model....
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