China would bring technology, finance, and capabilities to work at scale, as well as the ability to get things done expeditiously. What it would not bring is what the United States and Europe promote—“democracy” and “freedom,” opposition parties and NGOs, and critiques of internal political practices and elections. What the West champions as “universal values” the Chinese dismiss as “western values.” With China at the helm, there would be no agenda of “regime change,” no support for “color revolutions,” no championing of human rights activists. China instead would recognize and respect
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