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A New Cold War Has Begun (2019)

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Re: A New Cold War Has Begun (2019)

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I think the best you can hope for from China is Singapore -a business oriented Mosleyan fascism. Considering the lack of British influence there: this seems ridiculously optimistic to me. China will be Chinese. Western "Democracy" doesn't appear to be some universal desire of peoples; it's as far as can be told from observation a particularist ideology of Anglo and Franco Europeans. Russia's flirtation with "Democrac…

Korea, Taiwan and Japan seem pretty happy with it. India, mostly, too. Then of course many smaller countries like Mauritius, Botswana...

America literally wrote Japan's constitution after WWII and had a heavy role in guiding the development of Japan.

Re: A New Cold War Has Begun (2019)

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Provided the article wasn’t exactly clear and I have no way of knowing exactly what the author meant; I think things like civil unrest can be thought of as a “crack”, the US 1st amendment almost encourages small cracks and they quickly get filled in and we move forward with things slightly adjusted (for better or worse). Although in many regards the process is still flawed, the ability for the us to peacefully transf…

But how is china's situation different from the Soviet experience?

The first, most obvious, difference is the relative competence of economic planning.
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