{"id":28643,"date":"2020-10-11T14:06:03","date_gmt":"2020-10-11T18:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=28643"},"modified":"2020-10-11T14:10:08","modified_gmt":"2020-10-11T18:10:08","slug":"eric-x-li-a-tale-of-two-political-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2020\/10\/11\/eric-x-li-a-tale-of-two-political-systems\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric X. Li: A tale of two political systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>YouTube <\/em>has the TED talk <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=s0YjL9rZyR0&#038;app=desktop\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Eric X. Li: A tale of two political systems<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nIt&#8217;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&#8217;s more than one way to run a succesful modern nation.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/s0YjL9rZyR0\" style=\"border: thick ridge #009900;\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<pre>\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the link to a conversation on Facebook that started me looking into this information about China. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AjamuBarakaVP\/posts\/3471391642895991?comment_id=3471488339552988&#038;reply_comment_id=3471743946194094&#038;notif_id=1602428946607539&#038;notif_t=feed_threaded_comment_reply&#038;ref=notif\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">China is winning the global economic recovery<\/a>.  Here is the link to the article mentioned in this post &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2020\/10\/10\/economy\/china-global-economy-intl-hnk\/index.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">China is winning the global economic recovery<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YouTube has the TED talk Eric X. Li: A tale of two political systems. It&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-28643","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28643"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28646,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28643\/revisions\/28646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}