Again, this is all very late-19th century to me. That's the period where you find this behavior. Not between 1945 and 1989.
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I like the Anglo-German rivalry analogy very much.
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this strikes me as totally bizarre and extremely blind to the extent to which ideology permeates CCP behavior
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like, this is, in fact, a very large Communist Party that takes being a Communist Party very seriously in its relationship with power and geopolitics, as its own speeches repeatedly say.
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There was no equivalent of this in early 20th century Germany, which was not ruled by a single, highly organized party that saw *its own preservation* as the chief objective of its geopolitical moves.
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The fact that the toolbox that the CCP wields abroad is heavier on money and power and weaker on ideological appeal than the Soviet one is important, but not critical.
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Maybe that is where we disagree. I think that is a critical difference. China is ultimately ok with capitalism and the existence of other kinds of systems.
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it's fine with capitalism, it's explicitly not fine with freedom of speech or the rule of law - both at home and (especially in the first case) abroad.
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You really lose me there. How does rule of law or free speech in Canada, say, pose an intolerable threat to China?
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Maybe you should ask them why they kidnapped two Canadians to try and extort Canada into releasing Meng Wangzhou?
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I'm going to guess it was because they wanted Meng Wangzhou released
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