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By localizing networks, the center gains national unity but sacrifices innovation and sustainability.
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Elite Networks
By localizing networks, the center gains national unity but sacrifices innovation and sustainability.
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"...It is the deliberate policy of the imperial bureaucracy to localize elite networks so that they can never unite and challenge the center. Okay?..."
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"Okay? By localizing elites, you ensure the center can be challenged, and as a result, you give a semblance of national unity. But the..."
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China had the technologies that made modernity possible, then built a political culture that made those technologies inert.
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