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> "China's growing popularity"

People who think the Like count determines the future need to just ask Obama and Trump how many Likes they collected and whether all that work translated into any actual outcomes.

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I think popularity was the wrong word. More than anything I am concerned at how democracies are catering to Chinese audiences, ignoring the Chinese government’s authoritarianism because economics trumps democratic values. Maybe acquiescence would have been a more appropriate word.

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