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ledfrisby t1_je4kct1 wrote

I don't know if we can look at China as the future model of anything for developed countries. The country has a unique modern history, going from Maoist revolution, to starvation, to reform, to historically unprecedented economic growth, to a global superpower, where they are today. I don't see how the world view of the Chinese people and the CCP, shaped by these events, is in any way predictive of the rest of the world. The only common thread is what seems at times like a general slide towards authoritarianism, but that trend would have to continue for a long time, without the pendulum swinging back the other way, for Western democracies to take such steps.

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