I think it is a fantasy to think western concept of democracy has intrinsic power of attraction that will enable it to naturally spread unless sUppressed in a forceful and unseemly way. I speak to many chinese students here. The overwhelming majority believes what they learn in America makes them more competitive in the system back home. They actually don't think they will do as well at home if the system at home was politically more like that in the US. Therefore they have no desire at all to change the system at home in any substantive way. In other words they believe those beneficial things which democracies are better at inventing than authoritarianism, once invented actually works better under authoritarianism than it would under democracy.
So they are here to learn what we can invent that they can't, so they can take it home to make the inventions work better there than we can here.
So they are here to learn what we can invent that they can't, so they can take it home to make the inventions work better there than we can here.
