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Re:‘We’re Almost Extinct’: China’s Investigative Journalists... by coldtea on Saturday July 13, 2019 @07:28AM (#20427549)
>How so? It appears to have worked on the Soviet Union, and very few people accurately predicted its fall.

Correlation != causation. For one, all kinds of Eastern European regimes collapsed before USSR -- which helped a great deal.

Second, it was already not in very good shape from the inside...

Third, China did the same closer capitalist cooperation at the same more or less time as USSR, and is stronger than ever, as opposed to collapsed...

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Re:‘We’re Almost Extinct’: China’s Investigative Journalists... by luckylion on Saturday July 13, 2019 @08:16AM (#20427679)
> Correlation != causation. For one, all kinds of Eastern European regimes collapsed before USSR -- which helped a great deal.

My point was: that may have been (in part) thanks to the Western policy. If you're confrontational, you'll strengthen inner unity, and if you isolate a country, you aren't likely to convince the population that a different system of governance is possible.

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