Modern China is NOT based on forced/slave labor. You need to learn more about China yourself.China is a deplorable system based on forced/slave labor.
I do not defend Donald H ’s rose-colored view of China (or Cuba or Venezuela) but workers in China are free to change jobs and do so frequently. The extremely rapid increase in China salaries overall in the last decades, despite the lack of independent trade unions, is noted by all serious studies. The economy and construction of a whole new infrastructure for the nation has grown so quickly that there are jobs — not all decent paying of course, but far better than in the past.
Corruption, bureaucracy, lack of democracy in this authoritarian one-party system, these have negative consequences for sure. But the system is not based on slave labor, commune labor or prison labor. The latter does exist, but it exists in the U.S. as well, and the U.S. has a far larger prison population per capita.
I am not talking about systems here — so called capitalism vs. communism or socialism — but about actual empirical reality. The greatest and most rapid decline in deep poverty in the world has occurred in our lifetimes in China — and not through “slave labor.” This much we all ought to acknowledge.
I don't say everything is rose-coloured in those countries and it's not fair to quote me as saying that. I am saying that all the countries you mentioned could be performing at their best possible level if it wasn't for US interference and dirty tricks. China has a history of terrible treatement for centuries and not just by the US of course. The others can blame the US.
On democracy vs. communism in countries that practice capitalism, I have quite a bit to say about which can succeed in the 21st. century. It's something I would like to discuss with anybody who has a genuine interest in hearing it. Keeping in mind I'm a Canadian who values my democracy and understands that it needs to be carefully nurtured along.