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Dictatorship and Information

Pekingology

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What Is Authoritarian Regime X Learning From the War in Ukraine?

The book gets into a lot of the key questions and policy challenges folks or policymakers are dealing with as they try to understand the decision-making process in China's increasingly opaque political system. It focuses on how do we know how authoritarian regimes work and how decision making takes place in autocruses. The author says it is too early to know what China is learning from the war in Ukraine, which is still in process. But he argues that states can learn lessons if an event has significantly large magnitude.

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