Traveling back to the 1990s, and as the Soviet Union dissolved on the way to becoming Russia once again, the Russian people were finally getting a taste of the freedom that had been denied them for decades. The success of the latter was and is an embrace of the entrepreneurial American way by innovators in China who were (like the Russians) once unfree, but who’ve been increasingly free since the 1990s on the way to China-based prosperity that includes McDonald’s, Pizza Huts, Starbucks, and seemingly every other American brand everywhere you look. Despite this, as in despite the clear inability of the CCP to turn its own people against the United States, American politicians chose censorship of Chinese innovation out of fear that the CCP would use it to turn Americans against the United States.
Author: John Tamny, RealClearMarkets
Published at: 2025-03-29 12:48:12
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