looking forward to being officially able to call it the First Cold War
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You could read this in Tokyo or Lima and think, there's some solid points being made here, let's throw off the shackles of the imperialist oppressors. Are we supposed to worry that radical students in Berlin are going to crack open a tome of Xi Jinping and think, "ah-the future!"
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No, we're supposed to worry that elites in Kazakhstan will think 'ah-hah, I don't want to give up my Chinese money' and so work to suppress NGOs advocating for Kazakhs in Chinese concentration camps. Which has already happened.
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'China is reclaiming its rightful place in history, and that place can only be led by the Chinese Communist Party.' That might not be a *story* that's appealing to the world, but it's one that the CCP is very ready to use its power and money to impose and maintain.
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Yeah, but that is the most boring kind of great power conflict. We've had that for centuries. A big country is flexing and wants others to accept a subordinate role; the others don't like it. That's British Empire II at the very most, lacks the punch and vim of a new Cold War.
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