China's historical progress

Comments on Alan Kohler “China's historical whitewash”, 2/10/2009, http://www.businessspectator.com.au/bs.nsf/Article/Overcoming-Chinas-past-pd20091002-WESM4?OpenDocument&src=sph

Alan, maybe the first half of the past 60 years was a learning period for the Chinese communists and paid a heavy fee for that learning.

In retrospect, it was also a learning period for the world's all communists, with the Chinese communists having survived while the USSR collapsed.

The result is that the Chinese communists now are a different school of communism altogether. In light of that, they may have become Adenauer in the East! That is likely to have profound implications for not China but also the world.

While it is regrettable that the first half was disastrous for China, the Chinese have moved on and are now looking into the future, as opposed to dwelling in the past.

There is no point for us outsiders to revisit their pains if they don’t want to. So we probably need to move on as well.