Xinyu Tan’s Reviews > Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future > Status Update
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it feels like China's leadership is made up entirely of hydraulic engineers, who view the economy and society as liquid flows, as if all human activity—from mass production to reproduction—can be directed, restricted, increased, or blocked with the same ease as turning a series of valves.
— Sep 06, 2025 09:41PM
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Xinyu Tan
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The greatest trick that the Communist Party ever pulled off is masquerading as leftist. While Xi Jinping and the rest of the politburo mouth Marxist pieties, the state is enacting a right-wing agenda that western conservatives would salivate over: administrating limited welfare, enacting enormous barriers to immigration, and enforcing traditional gender roles…
— Sep 06, 2025 09:29PM
