By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 16/05/2026As America looted itself into irrelevance, China - a very different kind of autocracy - invested in domestic capacity and domestic consumption. 22/ 1404
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 16/05/2026China's hardly a well-run place: like any autocracy, it functions according to the whims of extremely fallible officials, which produces real-estate bubbles and other crises of production (to say nothing of the demographic crisis of the One Child policy). 23/ 1330
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 16/05/2026It necessitates steadily increasing oppression, from online surveillance to concentration camps in Xinjiang. Bjarnason writes about how this Chinese/US world presents a "double bind" for the EU. 24/ 1290
