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I teach some Chinese students by distance. I get a hint of what
is going on there. One student says that others at his school are posting
things critical of the government online. He is afraid to write an assigned
essay on “the effects of
Covid.” He feels it might be too “politically sensitive,” and I must substitute
a different topic.
The odds,
no doubt, are that the Chinese government will survive this upheaval. But if
they do not, it will change the direction of the world. It seems that other
governments everywhere have been looking to the Chinese model and seeking to
emulate their “basic dictatorship.” Just as years ago, everyone was looking to
Japan for their economic model. It would change everything, and for the better,
if the Chinese system were suddenly shown, like Japan’s economy, to hit a wall.
Mankind’s
hopes, for the moment, are on the shoulders of the people of China.
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