The US’s Biggest China Mistake: Underestimating Socialism
The US’s Biggest China Mistake: Underestimating Socialism
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This is what happens when you declare game, set, match when the clock is still running.
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To be somewhat fair, nobody in the early 2000s other than certain circles would've thought China was staging the biggest fake-out in history
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Except they weren't. What makes this all really funny is that China literally publishes 5 year plans, and the west keeps acting like China is inscrutable.
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I mean true but also I thought they literally said that's what they were going to do. Like I swear we are constantly caught off guard by them going to do exactly what they say they're going to do
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I found a YouTube link in your post. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
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Amusingly, I ended up writing about this very thing yesterday. The whole mythology about western liberalism being a superior system rested on the US having had a massive head start after WW2. And now we see that China was able to match that starting completely from scratch. https://dialecticaldispatches.substack.com/p/the-stress-test-liberalism-never