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Robert F. Graboyes's avatar

Good piece, though I generally reject expressions like “winning the trade war” or “having the upper hand in the trade war.” A trade war is destructive to other countries and to oneself. So “winning the trade war” really means “We are cutting off fewer of our fingers than you are cutting off of yours.

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Ruby Kamm, CPA's avatar

I believe your observation is spot on. The CCP’s structural flaw lies in its ideological DNA—deeply incompatible with the rule-based order required to lead the global economy. Its founding principles and historical burdens make it fundamental and irreconcilable difference to the objective of WTO compliance. In this light, the so-called “China Growth Miracle” has been less a path to sustainable development and more a prolonged “Great Leap Forward”—marked by grand infrastructure and manufacturing spectacles designed to impress the world, not to foster real progress.

We have a Chinese saying: “鉴古明今” — to understand the present by studying the patterns of the past. That’s exactly what I’m working on: building a knowledge base, piece by piece.

If this resonates with you, I invite you to explore my article, where I examine the CCP not as a monolithic party, but as a factional ecosystem that mirroring aspects of a two-party system—split between Hardliners and Globalists/Populists, insiders and reformers. Beneath that surface lies a far more intricate power dynamic.

https://open.substack.com/pub/taxestechcpa/p/ccps-impossible-dream-harmony-peace?r=k687f&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

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