The Communist Party has expanded and mobilized a parallel disciplinary bureaucracy with great powers to step in and investigate. Advertisement Continue reading the main storyA key question you pose is how much of China’s success can be ascribed to this political system. One is the party successfully sets long-term political goals, such as the modernization of industry or technology, or infrastructure planning. This has taken a lot of the energy out of China’s political system. It can’t be duplicated because these other countries don’t have a Communist Party with the special history and features of China’s.

Source: New York Times February 22, 2017 08:48 UTC