I guess it strikes me as not different in principle than what Britain would have done back in the day if you made fun of Queen Victoria. The limits of CCP influence and control operations seem to be stuff related to China. Maybe I'm not understanding your point?
Western loans to Poland in the same era were a huge contributor to the Solidarity movement, too. Or rather, their abrupt termination was.
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true - I don't think Poland ever did any of the game-playing that Ceaucescu did to attract those loans though? He was very given to flirting with the West, to say the least.
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I would enjoy learning more about those loans in general. My understanding is they were done not out of political motives, just capitalists and bankers doing their thing, but a side effect was to stifle dissent in the short term and help bring down the regimes in the long term.
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