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Xi feels he is losing power isn't a China-crash necessarily. The US economy doesn't stop when we switch leaders regularly. Certainly there would be changes bu
by Guvante 3y ago
Xi feels he is losing power isn't a China-crash necessarily.
The US economy doesn't stop when we switch leaders regularly.
Certainly there would be changes but they aren't predictable. (For instance the new leadership could censor even more due to not having as established based on less as they got into power by promising less invasive actions)
- keepamovin 3y agoSure, you raise a good point. It's also useful to consider how the idea that the leader for life of the country is going insane could be felt to be denigrating to the country and could be considered to be part of the general China-crash tropes. For the sake of good analysis, it's important to focus on real alternatives to that hypothesis, and avoid getting bogged down in semantics.
- bratbag 3y agoTwisting yourself in knots to avoid an unpleasent conclusion, serves nothing either. Liberal democracies arose out of the realisation that autocracies have bad endings like this.
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- keepamovin 3y agoBut you’re doing the thing you’re against. Pretending Xi is insane is twisting yourself in knots to avoid the unpleasant conclusion that China is a challenge to the West that won’t conveniently fail. So often people are first to accuse others of what they are themselves…