so historically you could resolve disputes between states with a conventional war. that was fairly effective one way or another but nukes have fucked that up for major powers. very difficult to go to war with a nuclear power if you are a nuclear power too. risky
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your response might be of course a closed ecosystem is more resilient because it can throttle information flows but im skeptical of this because theyre relatively vulnerable to preference cascades
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like how many us allied regimes have been replaced with ccp allies vs how many color revolutions have been kicked off since 2008
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relatedly i sort of suspect the fact that most chinese upper class ppl seem to come to the us for school is both a sign of us dominance culturally and a major vulnerability for chinahttps://twitter.com/DavidSHolz/status/1378976326581809155?s=19 …
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i have no idea why china under xi permits this. it seems nuts.
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yeah massive outflows of upper class chinese money to us real estate seems instructive wonder how thats going lately. interesting metric to track even if I dont understand all the implications https://twitter.com/pegobry/status/1378978110822027264?s=19 …
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Consider these terms: "Influence warfare" "Counter-influence warfare"
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one advantage of the more open: we can process defeat in real time rather than have it foisted upon us all at once depending on the situation
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if this is the nature of modern war, then one could argue that many nations are already at war with each other, just undeclared. spying and deceptive information are both exceedingly common between US/China and US/Russia already
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wait, which one is which? is the US still "relatively more open"? maybe still, but seems like US is quickly closing down while China is slowly opening up
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