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>china cant overcome america
I think its interesting
At a glance t hat isn't a problem

At a second glance in a population of a billion, you are going to have a entire upper class who has ownership of the growing parts of the economy, and some of them is going to become filthy rich.
Will China survive Xi picking a successor? Will the filthy rich just flee China and become irrelevant, or will they double down on proxy warfare against the CCP for their rights ala something like the Hansa?

I am not even trough the book, but it almost feels like the point is that in a Democracy you call a new election, go trough some turmoil, and a few rounds of chair games the old elites could be entirely frozen out. The big question will be if USA can successfully pull of the chair game and renew, and the same is true for most EU states.
In a dictatorship you eventually have to deal with completing your goals as a past event, which might be the reason for the military coup. Or that running on a cult of personality means you run out of steam if Hitler/Pinochet/Kim dies.

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