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Missionary Roots of Nationalism

Pekingology

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The Importance of Adapting Assumptions

I think Xi's assumptions about the world, his own position in power and what he needed to do in January 2013 are probably very different from Xi Jinping today. The 2015 stock market crash was this really significant paradigm shift in how Xi but also regulators thought about markets. It was not long after the equity market crash that Xi Jinping started to talk about financial security as national security. I think Trump rags it, COVID. We've just for our open source project have been translating pieces we found on CMKI back to the 90s where Xi Jinping gives interviews and shows a little bit of skin. There's good stuff in there. So part of it now is it's just easy to pick

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