<< Japan was burnt to the ground in 1945 and became the worlds second largest economy in twenty years with 1/45000 the resorces availible to China.>>
That's a gross oversimplification there. Being burnt to the ground is not all bad for an industrialized country. The work force is still there and the plant can be rebuilt all new from the ground up, giving a terrific advantage to the owners. I remember the story of a German engineer whose factory was being stripped by the Red Army for war reparations to the USSR. The heart and soul of the plant was this gigantic press, which the workers wanted to surround to prevent the Soviets from physically removing it. The engineer told the workers, "Don't be stupid. The most modern presses are ten times superior to that old piece of junk." They let the Russians take the old press, got a brand new one instead and presumably wound up much the better for it.
China had the problem of feeding a billion people. They had problems of fighting the Japs and then the KMT, whereas for the Japs, once the war was over, it was over. They had to fight America in the Korean War, which the Japs never had to do. I respect what the Japanese did after the War - - they got a lot of help from the US, the Chinese got a lot of hostility and war from the US, which was obviously trying as hard as possible to isolate them and make them fail. So you really just compared apples and oranges. If you still can't recognize the gigantic achievements of the Chinese Communist Party and the achievements of the Revolution in China, we just have to agree to disagree. You are bent on pissing on their parade only because they are communist and your irrational prejudices do not permit you to see the superiority of the communist system over capitalism even when it is staring you right in the face.
