I found your statement about sacrificing personal liberties for economic prosperity a fascinating way to abstractly summarize CCP's rule. I resonate with you -

I found your statement about sacrificing personal liberties for economic prosperity a fascinating way to abstractly summarize CCP's rule. I resonate with you - I think the Chinese government is hot-pacing through economic high in the short term but there are major consequences if they overreach. The more they do so, the more they get push back from the rest of the world - Streisand effect infiltrates the general populace if they're unhappy (currently, China is pulling millions out of poverty - a good thing) and then you see real consequences of trading liberty for economic stagnancy. In game theory, "a single hawk in a population of doves" is an inherently unstable state - Hawks will lure other Doves to follow Hawk-like behavior and eventually you'll have majority of hawks struggling to survive. This behavior will oscillate between two unstable points until hawk/dov ratio equilibrium is reached. The Chinese government has employed a number of hawk-like behaviors in the global economy - cut loose IP, subsidies for local firms, state-owned enterprises bypassing law, currency manipulation, driving-out non-Chinese firms that pose threat of domination, IP theft, cloning, etc. for short-term gains. I don't see how this behavior can be tolerated for long.