>>4314720I'll comment on China's growth too.
Originally the USSR gave them info, intel, and tech. The USSR did their first development (thinking wise while the chinese did the footwork). Then Deng Xiaoping reformed and opened up China. Foreign investment moved in, a lot from USA too, (this is when democracy and capitalism from abroad developed china, money from democracies did the financial work, chinese people did the footwork). The only Merit of chinese communist growth is foreign to begin with. But kudos to disliking the CIA and whatnot.