Why China can’t liberalize FASCINATING

T. Belman. Kotkin explains why liberalization is viewed as anathema to Communist China but it is also needed for economic prosperity.

At the same time, the liberalization of the US is destroying America because it is destroying its unity.  So the impulse to break things up must be opposed by the impulse to keep things the same.  i.e liberalization vs conservatism. must be kept in balance.

TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING IS A BAD THING.

EMPIRES COME AND GO. 

PEOPLE TREND TO COLLECTIVIZATION (AMALGAMATION) AND THEN REVERSE COURSE SEEKING SMALL STATES (INDIVIDUALITY)

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