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Engagement with China is Good and Other Lies – Part II

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After WW2, world leaders did a sense check to see what had gone wrong. They wanted to understand how dictatorships evolved and how best to stop Hitlers and Mussolinis from occurring. Eventually it was decided that one of the best ways to stop a dictatorship was to beat it economically. As a result, sanctions were imposed on countries who failed to toe the line.

Among others, the Soviet Union was cast out due to its communist beliefs. Communism was an anathema to democracy and thus the biggest threat to freedom. The way to beat this threat was by isolation. Absent access to western markets, the Soviets would bleed money and crash, which is eventually what happened.

The same strategy has been used against dictatorships across the globe and the results have been promising. By withholding access to markets and thus wealth, the people grow disillusioned with governments and either demand or force change. As a result, dictatorial regimes have been defeated and dictatorial regimes have mostly been curtailed (Competitive Authoritarianism – Levitsky/Way).

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