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Empire of Illusion: Frank Dikötter on Why China Isn’t a Superpower (youtu.be)

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– AntonioOfVenice -9 points 3 months ago +2 / -11

I've read this book. It's mostly wishful thinking. Note that there are no tent cities in the streets of Beijing, nor addicts everywhere, like there are in basically every Western country - including this guy's.

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– XBX_X [S] 6 points 3 months ago +6 / -0

Note that there are no tent cities in the streets of Beijing ...

No, because the CCP has the power and propaganda to round them up at gunpoint and ship them out to countryside villages. Idiot.

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– AntonioOfVenice -1 points 3 months ago +1 / -2

Governments in the US have no power?

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