But do they allow observers to fairly judge what the sanctioned might have done if they had not been sanctioned?
China is the only example of self-contained regime which escaped US/West wrath.
The Irony is, in USSR in the 60-70s they were thinking about doing the same thing China did later. But then oil crisis happened and shitload of money came, which was spectacularly wasted on supporting Africa, Latin America and importing food. I remember the food, which then quickly disappeared once the oil prices fell.
But China has proven that socialist regimes are capable of managing the economy as well as the best capitalist regimes.
One, of course, can say that China is Socialism in name only. It does not matter, regime transitioned to "capitalism" by its own plan. Chinese have to thank Russians for that.
For comparison, look at India which was kinda in the same situation at the start as China but a capitalist democracy.
Not to mention capitalist shitholes of South America. So superiority of capitalist system is not that obvious.
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