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No matter who's in charge in each moment, the West should try to convince China that it must transition to a political system like ours if they want to keep dea
by narag 7y ago
No matter who's in charge in each moment, the West should try to convince China that it must transition to a political system like ours if they want to keep dealing with us.
Allowing China to maintain its tyrannic regime is extremely dangerous for everybody in the long run.
The change doesn't need to be abrupt and it's possible to make some assurances for people currently in power.
Not that it worked so well with Russia, I know.
- jacquesm 7y agoThe only way such change can be enforced without a war is from inside.
- filoleg 7y agoI mean, isn’t that exactly the whole point of sanctions, to make people on the inside to feel the effects and do something about it from within?
- jacquesm 7y agoThat's the theory. The practice is the rulers will use the sanctions to prove to their people that the outside world is mean and evil and their only hope lies in their dear leaders.
- narag 7y ago"Enforced" is not the word I was looking for. More like showing the ruling class that it's in their own interest to gradually apply some changes. There are many obstacles for such a strategy. But even if there isn't a clear path, there needs to be some factors in place for somebody inside to invent that path. If nothing is ever done, nothing will change.