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If you go back to the rhetoric of the Clinton-era the belief was that the Internet and Capitalism would "free" China from authoritarian rule. Instead, the auth
by nr2x 6y ago
If you go back to the rhetoric of the Clinton-era the belief was that the Internet and Capitalism would "free" China from authoritarian rule. Instead, the authoritarians managed to co-opt both and gain further leverage abroad. They can't do everything, but don't bet against the Chinese accomplishing a lot of what the West thinks is based on "free and open exchange" via responsive authoritarianism.
- phkahler 6y ago>> If you go back to the rhetoric of the Clinton-era the belief was that the Internet and Capitalism would "free" China from authoritarian rule. That was just a cover to enable outsourcing american jobs to a country without a level playing field. Corporations and government sold out the US. The only guy to stand up to that just got run out of office and deplatformed. The dems had Tulsi, but shes getting dissed by her own party already.