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The Rise and Fall of China with Michael Beckley [S2 Ep.25]

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The Balance of Power Theory and the Convergence Theory

A lot of people assume that if you're a country as powerful as the united states, what goes up eventually must come down. The two major theories that try to motivate that are one, this idea of a balance of power and another called convergence. A poor country doesn't have to invent new technologies; it can just buy or steal whatever the most advanced countries are doing based on their technology. It turns out that this is not a very good theory though because over the last hundred years richer countries get richer faster than poorer ones.

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