China and America (and Taiwan and Ukraine) (Robert Wright & Kishore Mahbubani)
Robert Wright's Nonzero
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The One Lesson of Four Thousand Years of History
In the chinese mind, the one lesson of four thousand years of history is that the china does its most when there 's chaos. And they love order and predictability and stability. If you do break the law, the punishment is hah hush. But that also ensures that very few people break the law. When i grew up in singapore, now, singa was very wealthy. The percapita income was of singapores, 500 dollars. At the age of six, i was put on a special feeding programme because i came from a poor family in a poor singapore. We didn't have a flush toilet. Ah, we had gangsters killing each
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