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>The ruling CCP is diametrically opposed to most Western political and social values and itself feels very threatened by democracy and personal liberty.

I'd like some folks from China to respond to my comment, to make sure I'm not talking out of my ass, but in discussions with my friends who are from Taiwan or from Guangzhou the Chinese seem perfectly fine with rejecting "Western political and social values" as long as it means stable and consistent security and economic growth. And frankly I don't blame them. There is no physical law that says western democracies == happiness.

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But there is physical law (Newton's First Law) that implies without sufficient checks and balances systems ultimately become dominated by a single force.

Regardless, I and many other Americans like our system, so why should we allow to it be threatened by a power hostile to it.