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GoodFellows: Conversations from the Hoover Institution

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What Do the Chinese Have to Gain From Precipitating Such a War?

People fight for the same reasons thucydides identified 25 hundred years ago, right? Fear, honor, interest. And i think it's really a sense of honor, a and and fear of losing the communist party's grip on power. Tha drive, shesian ping. That's why i think so many of his decisions are inexplicable, right? From an economic perspective, right? If he really wanted to grow the economy a at the targeted rates, he would double down on the so called private sector in china, which doesn't really exist. But, but he wouldn't be doubling down on state, on enterprises, for example. Wut as me when want

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