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Sticks, Carrots...Baby Carrots: Rep. Mike Gallagher on the China Threat | GoodFellows: John Cochrane, Niall Ferguson, H. R. McMaster | Hoover Institution

GoodFellows: Conversations from the Hoover Institution

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China's Intelligible in Terms of Generations

It's conceivable that a change of leadership down the line, which inevitably will come, would have some significant policy implications. I don't think we should assume that China's completely set on a course. The generation that's now coming to par with us shortly after Xi Jinping had ascended to the presidency was entirely shaped by the cultural revolution. Their nightmare is a kind of resurgence of Dongran of chaos, but they also have this sense that there were aspects of Maoism that were admirable.

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