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This is alarming. I think these kind of one-off things can feel somewhat boring or unimportant if it were some very underdeveloped tiny country with a small pop
by debt 7y ago
This is alarming. I think these kind of one-off things can feel somewhat boring or unimportant if it were some very underdeveloped tiny country with a small population.
But we're talking about a country with 1.5B people and a very sophisticated technology sector, a powerful military and a modern economy starting to act like a dictatorship.
- Bayart 7y agoStarting ? China has always been a dictatorship. Now it's also a technologically driven one. Although you could say that materialistic ideologies have always been acutely aware of technical means. See Curzio Malaparte's Technique Of Revolution .