this doesn’t mean that china has no economic issues at all. real estate, for example, must be properly managed without wiping out everyone’s investments.

what matters is whether there is a way to remove corrupt or incompetent leaders from office. xi is human and subject to aging and the consequences this entails. if his mental faculties begin to deteriorate, there must be a way to replace him with a successor.

rationalwiki is pretty good…if not for its liberal bias.

it is a cold war. the term is a concept and not restricted to the ussr-us cold war. whether china wants it or not, the us is very much treating it like the ussr, and china should be prepared for anything.