More on this book
Kindle Notes & Highlights
The European Union is very far from the most pessimistic predictions of rapid decay and collapse, and those who bet on those outcomes will certainly be proven wrong. It is, however, faced with a world for which it is not prepared, a world where it must meet rivals and competitors that, for the first time in modern history, are on the same level of historical development while showing no sign of converging with European values.
A country has a lot more to gain by moving into higher-value segments in a supply chain than by increasing productivity in an already occupied segment.
Deng Xiaoping said that practice is the test of truth.
‘So you see, practice should lead us. We seek the truth from facts, proceed from reality and not from theories.’
Dismissing theoretical understanding of a problem, its formulation and useful models is not a virtue but a path to tortuous development and suboptimal results
Putin prefers to send ambiguous messages. He will have everyone guessing at the meaning of his words. In the case of things going wrong, it was simply because this meaning was not accurately interpreted. Under these conditions, chaos is bound to grow, but it is seen as productive and capable of reinforcing state power.
