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The Middle East and China?

The Middle East and China?

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History, it seems, hasn't ended at all (although if the Middle East uprisings had happened in 1992, he'd have said they were evidence of history ending...)

Pantomime villain of American academia and repentant Carl Schmitt of neoconservatism Francis Fukuyama asks whether the protests that have swept the Middle East will inspire a similar movement in China, or whether that country's middle class is more interested in the material than the political.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703560404576188981829658442.html

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Originally posted by DrKF
Pantomime villain of American academia and repentant Carl Schmitt of neoconservatism Francis Fukuyama asks whether the protests that have swept the Middle East will inspire a similar movement in China, or whether that country's middle class is more interested in the material than the political.
My understanding was that the Middle East events were initially largely caused by material interests not political ones.

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Politics consists entirely of deciding how competing material interests will be decided.