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This is definitely overblown.

There is official training program for government officials from China to Singapore. Probably inspired China's confident rejection of western government model and insist on strict top-down control.

But China's inspiration is from USA.

Everything, literally, everything is set to use USA as the inspirational counterpart. I mean, literally, everything. Name anything you can think of, I can tell a story how the daily life has the USA reference or influence.




I choose to name: lack of de facto individual rights and coincident lack of independent judiciary.


Examples?




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