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A Government That Mistakes Control for Power
Beijing has become extraordinarily good at stopping things. That does not mean it has become equally good at making things happen.
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AI Is a Gift to People Who Want to Leave the System
The most political thing about artificial intelligence may not be what it allows governments to do. It may be what it allows individuals to stop needing.
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The Country That No One Is Steering
How the Chinese Communist Party mistook administrative control for control of history.
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The Grip and the Sand
How the fear of losing control becomes a system for losing what matters.
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The Internet Is Becoming Harder to Border
Networks keep making geography cheaper while states still depend on making geography matter.
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The Rooster That Thought It Made the Sun Rise
When a boom lasts long enough, luck becomes skill, skill becomes theory, and theory becomes mythology.
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When the Whale Falls, Ten Thousand Things Are Born
The boomerang the Chinese Communist Party wrote for its own future.
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You Have Never Tried Breaking It Apart
The strange politics of demanding certainty from every future except the present.
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The Cowardice of the Communist Party
The revolution that killed the king and learned to fear history.
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