China may need no help from US to jeopardise its ascendancy.
So far, China's progress came at a greatest expense of its political establishment.
For long, people have expected that at some point the people in power will decide that they need to put a leash on the country that gets too far ahead of its political leadership, and prevent it from getting "too successful" for them to manage.
They way Xi's administration not simply acting on that, but like tripling and quadrupling down on it in the last few years is the biggest proof that they have passed that point.
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China may need no help from US to jeopardise its ascendancy.
So far, China's progress came at a greatest expense of its political establishment.
For long, people have expected that at some point the people in power will decide that they need to put a leash on the country that gets too far ahead of its political leadership, and prevent it from getting "too successful" for them to manage.
They way Xi's administration not simply acting on that, but like tripling and quadrupling down on it in the last few years is the biggest proof that they have passed that point.