Status Updates From Autocracy, Inc.

The book is interesting, giving perspectives about how authoritarian governments work in unison to create a normalization of their oppression. But once every couple of pages, the blatant CIA/American propaganda spills out, and it’s like, “ OK. This just comes off as super hypocritical.” I find the author’s analysis to be too ingrained with American exceptionalism and not enough with a non-Western perspective.

當前的危機是當代歷史開創新紀元的決定性時刻，反映的是關於世界秩序將呈現何種樣貌的爭奪戰。