> The claim that opening up trade with China would have a 'liberalizing influence on the country'
I mean that did happen. It's just that it wasnt for seen that it could be snapped back so violently.
China is still definitely more liberalized than it was in, say, 1980, even if it apexed in 2016 (with a long way to go) and retrenched itself since then.
I mean that did happen. It's just that it wasnt for seen that it could be snapped back so violently.
China is still definitely more liberalized than it was in, say, 1980, even if it apexed in 2016 (with a long way to go) and retrenched itself since then.