[quote=FlyerInHi]Another great talk by Kevin Rudd.
The gravest danger for China is the middle income trap and the non-implementation of market reforms they had identified for themselves.
The trade war may cause China to implement their own reforms, ironically benefit them.
I finally got around to watching this. The guy’s got some decent viewpoints. I will say the West’s assumption on China’s eventual liberalization is based on an apple to orange comparison. The West looked at S.Korea and Taiwan and assumed China would go that way as well, but forgot China is essentially Europe unified by the Nazi. One will not be assuming an unified Europe under the Nazi regime to liberalize, will they?
China’s got too many excuses to not liberalize, country is too big, development too unequal, regional differences too great, so on and so forth. The bottom-line as Kevin Rudd pointed out, it is an authoritarian regime aimed at preservation of that authoritarian order.
Honestly, for the good of China, all Chinese people, and the world at large, BREAK IT UP!
