>Man irresistibly is drawn to freedom The success of China and people in the West increasingly saying things like "But do we really need freedom of speech that

>Man irresistibly is drawn to freedom The success of China and people in the West increasingly saying things like "But do we really need freedom of speech that some people don't like?" makes me question this claim. Countries go through cycles of freedom and intense restriction. People are willing to fight and die for both sides. It's just a matter of who's more persuasive at the moment, and in the case of China, young people know their grandparents and even parents were laboring away on farms with holes for toilets while they're driving BMWs and buying new iPhones every year. Play a couple videos of chaotic protests in other countries on the news and they've made up their mind as to what they prefer. It's easy for China to sweep away their problems. Other countries have also been nervously saying "China will collapse any day now! They're building empty cities!" It's not happening, but people think it is. Treating Chinese failure as an inevitability is only making one's own country weak. They need to be seen as equal to the US and just as ready to economically hammer countries in the same way the US likes to. America's biggest advantage right now is cultural. People like American media and it helps give people a decent impression of the US. Nobody knows about China. Now that China is buying up Western media companies, that'll change in the coming decades.