"The profound irony is how Western thinkers confidently predicted decades ago that connecting China to the international order would inevitably liberalize their political system, that they'd have no choice but to adopt their democratic governance model. It's quite amusing that we're now witnessing th"
"I'm from a post-soviet country (well, technically an ex Warsaw pact one, but it's basically the same, we use it interchangeably) so naturally all of my geopolitical takes were very cynical, and always came with a western imperial bias. This meant that every time something major happened, I looked it"