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I read Part I and thought it excellently written and reported. However, the series didn't cover the role of American entrepreneurs in deciding to outsource their manufacturing there. What kind of outreach did China make to them? Was it a
profit equation that made possible the"defection" enmass of our own capitalists? What responsibility do our politicians bear for wanting to open up China? Or is China's rise due to China's efforts?
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Great podcast. Very insightful, but Richard Gere was banned from entering China before he ever made the movie RED CORNER. He was banned before that for his outspoken remarks against the People's Republic of China treatment of Tibet. Also, in the original RED DAWN from the 80’s, in the story - China was actually was actually attacked by Russia as well and were now fighting alongside the U.S. How things have change…or not.
Audience want to know why the west got wrong. But the whole 20 mins were about what China is in western view. All these things have been told for decades, nothing new. It's is just some people sitting in their home and trying to figue out what Mars like.
I'm curious as to what the West got right about China as they quickly surpass the West.
Democracy is not a system to get rid of leaders when the economy is doing great, it works when things are tanking.
It is possible that the West misunderstands the nature of China. The mistake is not the theory about freedom, but the facts about China.
China is not free, as we are. However, China is free in many ways.
It has competitive markets, and they are free to operate, invent, and fail. The government steps in to reward winners, not to pick them.
We know next to nothing about what happens inside the secretive system of the Communist party of China. However, it is as big as most countries. It has politics.
Those politics include factions, and they include enough freedom for a faction to hand over power to a competing faction -- in fact that is exactly what just happened when Xi's faction took over from his rival faction that held the Presidency for two terms before him. It was a peaceful transfer of power, not a coup. That peaceful transfer of power is a major indicator of a modern country's politics in the West.
They have their electronic Wall, and censorship. They are not as free as we are in many ways.
Then again, we are moving to private corporate censorship of the internet, by the same people who contract to provide it to China. It is our self-proclaimed liberals, the Democrats, who are pushing that, not our hard line conservative Republicans. If freedom is moving, it is moving on both sides of the ocean, and we are moving the wrong way while they are moving the right way.
So, facts. They matter.
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