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David's avatar

The FT's China coverage is simultaneously simplistic and thematically consistent, and when readers read the same projections/insinuations, its hard to pop the bubble. Interesting reference to the 09 crash!

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An excellent comment. Unique ability to put communist policies into perspective, understand their real life, logical, historical, cultural, economic i.e. Leninist foundation.

Xi is a normal politician, communism is alive. New Cold War is logical. Decoupling might not work perfectly, exactly as expected by the US, because both sides in the new Decoupling War are capitalist. More like Chinese Leninist global capitalism against US liberal global capitalism.

A time may come when Communist Party of China will realize its economic and development goals. Will it be a time to give up ruling billion people in order to guide them to a post that is unachievable by any other method, and having confidence in letting China be ruled by a more spontaneous, democratic structure.

No. Letting go of communism before US is contained as global Empire would be dangerous.

As proven by Gorbachev. And Russia.

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