Rethinking China

By Leo Gura - June 12, 2025

China is achieving impressive social development. China offers an interesting different paradigm from the West. It’s worth seriously considering the Chinese paradigm of governance on its own terms, without doing the usual thing of judging or dismissing it from inside the Western paradigm.

Obviously the Chinese government has serious problems — namely: corruption, no democracy, lack of free speech, human rights abuses — but it needs to be considered with an open mind. The following videos opened my mind on this matter.

China is doing many things right. American governance has a serious flaw: it has been completely captured by powerful corporations. In America, corporations are more powerful than the government — which is backwards. In China, government is more powerful than corporations — which is correct because corporations represent minority interests. Only the government can represent the welfare of the whole citizenry. Somehow we need a system that blends the best of China and America while eliminating the corruption, corporatism, and trampling of personal freedoms.

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