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Something different since the endless China bashing gets boring after a while. I thought this was the best defense of China's system I've read, or at least it's thought provoking...
The Confucian State: An Ideal Type of Governance for China?
The West gets China wrong: because it does not understand the nature of the Confucian state. Beijing could complete its historic transformation by breaking completely with Marxism and acknowledge the Confucian state as its ideal type.
- The author is not really defending the existing system so much trying to preserve what he sees as positive aspects while finding a way to fundamentally changeyuekit
- some things, which he justifies by appealing to Confucianism.yuekit
- These Neo-Confucianist ideas have been around for a while but what's surprising is that Xi Jinping seems to support this to some extent, including abandoningyuekit
- foundational tenants of Marxism.
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