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Kotkin on China

ChinaTalk

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The One China Policy in the West

There can't be a world without China. And that goes also for the global south. Our policy was for places like China or India to rise. That was an express policy. There was opportunity at home for social mobility and there was opportunity abroad for other countries to join this enterprise. The problem was always the terms of joining. And you could join while cheating. You could join without abiding by the rules. I wouldn't have done it that way. I would have upheld people to playing by the rules of the order that they will be coming beneficiaries. We need to open up that sense of opportunity for others. But we also need to understand what the terms are for them.

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