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The Russiansa Chinese People Were Just Itching to Embrace a Democracy and Liberal Norms

John tti s wants to highlight one of your pointsyom, it is really important. The people who tend to have a your viewpoint are actually a relatively small educated elite whom we tend to exaggerate the importance of. Butlemy gree ifferent set john, that's a very different mind. I i think one has to spend time in these countries to get a sense of how profoundly different they are, historically and culturally from the countries where we grew up. You can see chinese making democracy work exceedingly well. So this isn't an cultural argument for why it's proved so difficult for centuries on both sides. This is not a cultural determent would up what's going

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