china is doing the hegelian synthesis of capitalism, communism, and fascism that the west should be doing it if weren't for america artificially extending the life of the former for the past century by acting as a gigantic bonus pool of resources and manpower that was used to paper over its flaws without implementing structural reform and evolving. it's like if the habsburgs had successfully subjugated england, the low countries, and the hre during the 16th century and just ensured the continuation of stagnant feudal catholic monarchy, preventing the emergence of capitalism / the enlightenment / the scientific revolution / parliamentary democracy and so on. in fact this was our historical criticism of why china was so stagnant and backwards for centuries, but they actually learned from it and are avoiding making the same mistake again while we're quadrupling down on our now outmoded model because of a comparable stultifying domination by liberal capitalism
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