It was this end of history idea that we can find a modern regime within that that they will evolve. And It was a misreading...that China got allowed into the WTO and this idea that integrating in the global economy...they will modernize and become more like us. And it was just a, you know, it may have been naive, it was altruistic. I mean it, it speaks to the core. (12:34–12:46)
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Asserts that allowing China into the WTO was based on a misreading of their potential to modernize and align with Western values.
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