As of the end of June 2023, a total of 13 Chinese-funded banks had established 145 first-tier offices and branches in 50 BRI partner countries; some 17.7 million businesses in 131 partner countries had opened UnionPay services, and 74 partner countries had opened UnionPay mobile payment services...
mostly in the Soviet Union and its Eastern European satellite republics. However, modern scholars doubt that any of these countries were ever truly communist at all since they significantly strayed from many of the basic components of a Marxist system. Indeed, scholars argue...
Today, only five countries—China, Cuba, Laos, North Korea, and Vietnam—have communist governments, although they may call themselves socialist or have socialist economies.7Vietnam, for example, is the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. In addition, a number of other nations have communist parties ...
And hence today it is one of the most successful countries in the world. Bernard Lewis rightly pointed out that far from destroying the heritage of others, the Europeans actually gifted non-whites with knowledge of their own histories. European contribution to science, knowledge stems...
Growing up, my parents knew too many people who had fled from Communist-dominated or threatened countries and had heart-rending stories to tell of their experiences in living in and fleeing Cuba, Russia, Eastern Europe, the far East. Reading Michener’s account of the Hungarian Revolt ...
During 2021, many countries experienced a drop in life expectancy due to COVID-19 and were still reeling from theeconomic ravages of the pandemic. Life expectancy rose to 84 years, up from 83.1 in 2020. Switzerland also saw its per capita income surge to $93,457 in 2021, a sharp rise ...
It is one of the most successful stories that Chinese Government led by the Communist Party of China (CPC) made in the past decade and it is good exemplary and footsteps for developing and underdeveloped countries in the world from a country with a large population of 1.4 billion and that'...
and kept close control of the economy. Joseph Stalin became the leader of the Soviet Union in 1929 because they were experiencing multiple revolutions and a civil war. He became a communist dictator; private farms were eliminated in favor of collective farms, millions of peasants were killed on...
He is obviously not a communist because he is spreading wealth around as communism was supposed to do. Bezos likes to keep workers at a subsistence minimum as communism ended up doing as well. But still, that is not where the most striking similarity lies. Where Bezos and communism overlap ...
Nearly all of the evils of Stalin's regime can be more-correctly ascribed to authoritarian dictatorships as a political system, rather than communism as an economic system. Not saying they weren't communist, but they were also atheist; does atheism make you act like Stalin, or...