đź’ˇ The Key Lesson for the China Journey Your instinct that we cannot be the binary of China is the most important takeaway from the Soviet era: The US won the Cold War not just by containing the Soviet Union militarily, but because its internal system—the ability to tolerate political dissent, the dynamic of its market-driven economy, and the power of its alliances—proved to be more resilient and attractive. The path forward, which avoids the horrors of the binary, is to focus on fixing the internal flaws you identified: reducing the "over-use of weapons" in our own politics, promoting Empathy in our institutions, and finding democratic ways to regulate the structural horror of capitalism. The greatest strategic strength against an authoritarian regime is a healthy, self-correcting, and morally coherent democracy.

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