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I still think that trying to convince people isn't a lost cause. Despite all reasons to the contrary, from falling literacy to rampant provincialism, I have hopes the answer isn't ethnic clensing, fall of empires and dark ages.???
Capitalism survived the Economic Crisis of 2008 because everyone believed deeply in capitalism - hell, 95% of the central bank leaders in the Western World were Goldman Sachs alums. I think Xi wants Evergrande to be an example about the dangers of not living Confucianist Communism.