Team China edging towards what a domain of farmers, students, scholars, inventors, innovators do best,......
Really, Jay, you can’t possibly be that naive.
Facial recognition, HK police, social credit scores, IPR theft, censorship, Presidents for Life....is that what students, scholars, farmers, inventors, etc., do?
The CCP is engaged in a slow but steady constriction of the human spirit, just as a boa constrictor slowly kills its prey and devours it.
Without a history of freedom for all in its DNA (but with a millennial history of strife and concentrated power), China is bound to repeat its history. Mass communications and globalization have made the current model obsolete. If the trend continues (and it will, because totalitarian rule always implies a desire for increased control and obeisance, not less), the CCP will be using an inordinate amount of resources to control the population. It is eventually a losing game, one China has played before.
We have our own problems, but I wouldn’t trade them for China’s.
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