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The Lie That Built Communist China

July 11, 2026·24 min·4-min readsolopolitics
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The United States long operated under the delusion that economic engagement with China would lead to political liberalization, but instead enabled the rise of a hostile authoritarian regime that now poses an existential geopolitical threat. The Chinese Communist Party never abandoned its

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