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9 Jun, 4 tweets, 1 min read
This is an insightful piece. But it also demonstrates a problem with the Biden Doctrine: the US-China threat is not identical with the challenge to democracies being posed by autocracies. These are two different things.
There is overlap, of course. China's success could be a model to the non-democratic world. But the authoritarians in Russia, Turkey, Hungary and Poland don't look to China for their model.
Is the issue that China is the poster-child for authoritarian *success*? Which side of this great divide do the US-aligned Gulf states fall on?
Also true. Without a more developed narrative, this gets lazily read as Cold War 2 with Communist and Capitalist blocs.

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