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Re:Xi Jinping personally halted Ant's IPO after Jack Ma snub... by baybal2 on Friday November 13, 2020 @02:42PM (#25086503)
> think China suffers from a collective inferiority complex?

You couldn't have said it better. But it's much more attributable to the now waning elites, than anybody else.

Those are people who grew up being spoon fed with success for life, and are envious beyond measure of people who got to succeed without paying a dime for party membership.

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Re:Xi Jinping personally halted Ant's IPO after Jack Ma snub... by mensetmanusman on Friday November 13, 2020 @04:49PM (#25087911)
Maybe.

They are taught they are amazing with a long history (that they are trying to erase in real tie), but that is hard to reconcile how amazing they are with having sat out the scientific revolution the last 200 years or so.

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