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@Charlie Stross I drafted a long comment which timed out. Not going to reconstruct it. Because from it I realised: I was wrong; 3 examples-Tibet, Uighurs and India border scuffle run counter to my argument, so I'm conceding that they...
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David L I wouldn't know how to characterise Xi accurately, given that his predecessors were Hu Jintao and Jiang Zemin; who were both also competent autocrats. Maybe bureaucratic dictator, given how he purged all his rivals totally but within somewhat...
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David L @ 846: JBS @ 849: After reading this, I had a thought - as they say in poker, "If you're in a game of poker and you don't know who the sucker is, you're the sucker." I guess...