it's like the dictum on how physics advances it's thinking, one funeral at a time, and preparing to fight the last war at the pace of change today may require throwing out the baby with the bathwater just to break out of old thinking. The risk that I can see at this point is if badly managed it can create an atmosphere that chills innovation instead of stimulating it.
Corruption allowed the rules bending/breaking that helped kickstart Deng's reforms, but while it got out of hand, bringing it back under control post Jiang hasn't hurt the economy, so there is hope.
Brings to mind an essay I wrote a few years back regarding Xi’s consolidation of power.
https://open.substack.com/pub/mirrorsfortheprince/p/applying-ibn-khalduns-ideas-to-china?r=v623r&utm_medium=ios
it's like the dictum on how physics advances it's thinking, one funeral at a time, and preparing to fight the last war at the pace of change today may require throwing out the baby with the bathwater just to break out of old thinking. The risk that I can see at this point is if badly managed it can create an atmosphere that chills innovation instead of stimulating it.
Corruption allowed the rules bending/breaking that helped kickstart Deng's reforms, but while it got out of hand, bringing it back under control post Jiang hasn't hurt the economy, so there is hope.
hasn't hurt the economy?