Excerpt - What happened to China's new Tiananmen moment? w/ Jane Hayward
Politics Theory Other
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The Chinese Communist Party Should Have Fallen by Now, How Come It Hasn't?
There are a number of different narratives about China in the press. There's a strong liberal paradigm that says authoritarian regimes will eventually fall and we just have to wait long enough because they can't be sustainable. But so many authoritarian regimes, I mean, if you understand the Chinese regime as capitalist, it shouldn't be a surprise to anyone. It's only if you divide the world up into this slightly artificial liberal democracies versus authoritarian states that I think you come up with strange paradigms that don't really work.
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