China’s Secret Weakness

By Paul Johnson posted on Forbes With China’s rapidly expanding economy and growing power at sea and in the air, some commentators have taken the view that it’s not a question of whether but how soon China will replace the U.S. as the world’s leading superpower. This is nonsense. So long as America retains its freedom and thus its unique powers of innovation, it will continue to lead. Besides, China’s elite is too scared to follow in the path of freedom because to do so would risk unity, threatening disinte
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