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He argues China has almost no popular interest in democracy because its social aspiration is bureaucratic protection, not individual liberty or rule of law.
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He argues China has almost no popular interest in democracy because its social aspiration is bureaucratic protection, not individual liberty or rule of law.
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"So I've been in China for 25 years and I can tell you that there is almost no interest in democracy in China because..."
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"You want to you want to be a bureaucrat one day?"
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"...work so hard in school because they want to pass a civil service examination to become a bureaucrat. So then they can provide guarantees..."
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"...bureaucracy? The first is something called the keju, which is the civil service examination. So everyone's attention, everyone's energies was focused on getting their..."
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"...They destroy monopolies to encourage free market competition. They open a civil service to the middle class before it's only available to the nobility."
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"...Napoleon's victories, the Prussians allowed the middle class to join the civil service."
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"...radical cultural shift is the kezhu. Okay? The kezhu is the civil service examination that promoted bureaucrats into positions of power. Okay? The kezhu...."
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