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Message: [QUOTE="Mike Barton, post: 10530746, member: 161255"] I really don't see how size matters in this context, either a socio-economic policy works or it doesn't. South Korea versus North Korea, their two respective developmental paths had absolutely nothing to do with size and everything to do with their government's policies. Japan was not an insignificant country, it's economic development had nothing to do with its size. If size was a detriment to economic development then Canada and the United States would be basket cases. And anyway, China's subsequent boom has actually only affected a relatively small sector of China, vast areas of the interior remain in pretty relative poverty. So size wasn't the determinant factor but rather the policy pursued and frankly the policies pursued by the CCP were appalling and destructive to development for decades. When the Party wised up and abandoned all their previous nonsense, the country entered a period of immense growth, growth that could have been achieved decades earlier if someone other than the Communists had been in charge. Size was the least relevant factor. [/QUOTE]