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Non-elites were crushed under 2 circumstances: decentralized oligarchs became too powerful (Hungary) or centralized govt became too powerful (Russia)

The ending of part 3 left me slightly unsatisfied. He asks, Why did China not develop indigenous capitalist institutions? His answer is basically that it did not have to do with a lack of good institutions but with Chinese culture. I don’t automatically dismiss answers involving culture as a cop out, but in this case it feels like he should expand on how the culture came about.