"China’s tech sector is effectively a state-within-a-state, like Vatican City in Rome – a new silicon enclave. And outside the enclave, much has been sacrificed."
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@KS18463@Noahpinion I don't say this as a criticism. I think they were smart to copy the West in every way possible. I'm just pointing out that we can't say Japan "stood up against Western global domination." The truth is literally the opposite.
@KS18463@Noahpinion Japan copied the West so much they even had a debate during the Meiji period about whether or not to scrap the Japanese language completely and adopt English as their national language - all part of their modernisation drive. They didn't do it in the end, but came close.
"The People’s Republic is declining at speed, its social and economic fractures multiplying, like a meteor breaking apart as it enters Earth’s atmosphere. Despite this, it succeeds in broadcasting strength to the Americans and stability to the Europeans."
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"Nixon’s policy changed the destiny of countless ordinary human beings, slowing the great flood of personal tragedies that had characterised China’s entire history before reaching its torrential peak in the Mao Zedong years."
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"Staying to finish the job will make sure that Xi Jinping’s Islamofascist proxy is removed from the chessboard. This is probably the option Trump should go for... But the longer it takes, the more Washington drains its strength for the coming contest."
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"The cruel theocrats of Tehran operated for years as a second front in the CCP’s Cold War with Washington... Now the distraction is being removed... One great decapitation, and then focus will turn east, to the defining challenge of the era."
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"China’s president must be haunted day and night by the prospect of a palace coup... He knows—just as Vladimir Putin knows—that he won’t survive long after losing power. Popular figures within his orbit, therefore, must be eliminated pre-emptively."
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"Takaichi’s interlocutor was positioned not just a thousand miles to her west, but also several centuries into the past: a distant and violent place in which the Chinese nation remains marooned."
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