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Originally Posted by Intranetusa

Scale has nothing to do with it. India has almost as many people as China, and their democracy is fairly successful.

As for Taiwan, sure they have those parliamentary brawls, but their government system is still less corrupt than the PRC at nearly every level.

http://wiredispatch.com/news/?id=300693

Shih Ming-teh, a former leader of Chen's Democratic Progressive Party, said the money could be the tip of the iceberg. He accused Chen of taking at least $85 million from an entrepreneur bidding for bank ownership during a spate of mergers initiated by the government in 2005. He refused to identify the businessman.
Chen left the presidency in May 2008, two months after his party's candidate was beaten in the presidential poll by the then-opposition Nationalists.

btw, Chinese civilization is 4000 years old, and Chinese history is 3200 years old. I dunno where the number 5000 comes from. It's not offically considered history unless there is writing (Shang at around 1200-1600 BCE), and the earliest Chinese civilization is the Xia at 3000 BCE... The Yellow Emperor legend is a myth that shouldn't taken into account.

because 5000 sounds better then 4000 or 3269