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> China is declining. It sounds to me like you're making a moral argument, not an empirical one. Are you saying that China deserves to decline, because they ar
by landryraccoon 6y ago
> China is declining.
It sounds to me like you're making a moral argument, not an empirical one. Are you saying that China deserves to decline, because they are authoritarian, or that they actually are declining, and the numbers show this?
If China's economy is really declining, I'm curious what the evidence of that is. What are the numbers? Are they experiencing a shrinking economy, declining productivity, technological stagnation? I'm not an expert, but I would be surprised if that was true.
- chaostheory 6y agoI'm not making a moral argument, just a long term hypothesis based on history. No, the data doesn't currently support my case. I posit what we're seeing now is similar to what happened when John Sculley took over Apple after Jobs' ouster. What we're seeing are the fruits from Zhou Enlai & Deng Xiaoping's faction. I think it's really hard to have innovation without freedom of speech without relying on stealing technology.