It’s therefore no surprise that China has become more like America in apolitical spheres—the way they’ve plugged into the grid of the global economy, the pollution they spew into the atmosphere, the pop culture they consume, the technology-driven nature of life in the twenty-first century. Think of American capitalism and culture devoid of liberal values and democratic politics, and you’ll get something approximating the Chinese Communist Party. But in recent years, the balance has also shifted. It is now America that is becoming more like China—a place of growing economic inequality,
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