In China’s Shadow (Robert Wright & Sebastian Strangio)
Robert Wright's Nonzero
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Is the Belt and Road Initiative a Chinese Strategy?
Part of the American fear of China has to do with this idea that it is trying to replicate its model of governance around the world. John Avlon: The division between democracies and autocracies is a lot grayer than people like to claim. He says there are many different forms of non-democratic government, both in Southeast Asia and the wider world.Avlon: Chinese might start to go, well, actually reinforcing these repressive regimes because you've got Western countries trying to empower them.
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