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Well I'll concede your point there. However it doesn't take a genious to figure out they're investing in "butter" simply for what is called "defensive developmentalism."
It's what happened to the Ottoman Empire and followed by the M.E. countries since. They want a good military first and foremost. For that you need to get rid of the old feif systems and install a new capitalistic one for income. For that you need to nationalize the economy so the state controls it for max development. For that you need bureacracy. For that you need education. For that you need personal liberties in the public sphere. For that you need good economic conditions. For that...
You see where it goes, completely re-writes the society. China is trying to do that but stopping at state controls of development. They will either stop there and start re-investing in the military, or lead it to it's conclusion of an open/free society.
Unfortunately for most of the ex-Ottoman states, they stopped at state controls as well. We know what fruit that tree has blossomed.
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