
Stephen Vines, "Defying the Dragon: Hong Kong and the World’s Largest Dictatorship" (Hurst, 2021)
New Books in East Asian Studies
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What Will Happen in the Next Ten Years?
I tried to write a book in parts, one, to explain the background of what was happening and how it came about. And then there's this grisly business, trying to see a bit, but i always hesitate to do this,. Trying to see bid what will happen in the future. I decided that the only thing that in knew about the future is that dictatorships are unstable forms of government. There has never been a dictatorship in modern history that had the sort of long liberty that they themselves imagined they would have. You know, the thousand yer rich of the naes didn't last a thousand years. The eternal governments of the soviet union lasted not much more than
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