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It's so weird that 1.4 bn people in a modern economy are in the grip of old school authoritarianism
Francis Fukuyama was so, so wrong but that idea that Western liberal democracy is the apex of civilisation persists. Not a new way of thinking: Hegel thought the same thing about the society of the Austro-Hungarian empire. The Reaganite economic advisers who swarmed post-Gorbachev Russia thought the same and boy did they do a lot to help create the Russian kleptocracy.
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To those who know China...how would the people react if they were given freedom of expression, multi-party democracy and free and fair elections? It's so weird that 1.4 bn people in a modern economy are in the grip of old school authoritarianism