Eric X. Li: A tale of two political systems


YouTube has the TED talk Eric X. Li: A tale of two political systems.

It’s a standard assumption in the West: As a society progresses, it eventually becomes a capitalist, multi-party democracy. Right? Eric X. Li, a Chinese investor and political scientist, begs to differ. In this provocative, boundary-pushing talk, he asks his audience to consider that there’s more than one way to run a succesful modern nation.


I am not suggesting that you accept this talk without question. I am just now considering the possibilities of what this talk suggests. I spent one year at UCal Berkley in 1983. I met someone who had suffered through the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Years later, I think I heard that she had gone back to China. This talk may explain why she might have done that.

Here is the link to a conversation on Facebook that started me looking into this information about China. China is winning the global economic recovery. Here is the link to the article mentioned in this post – China is winning the global economic recovery.

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