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thanks josh, very heartened to hear your impressions! and thanks for the rec.

-- andy

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AnonymousJul 30, 2020

As an anti-CCP progressive who grew up in mainland China, I used to have a hard time wrapping my head around the existence of tankies: It baffled me that people who grew up in the West with democracy and rule of law (as imperfect as they are) would unironically support an authoritarian one-party state. Thank you for helping me understand their perspective! This was a very insightful episode.

Also, if it's not too much to ask, could you invite the author of this paper to come onto the pod? (https://twitter.com/dikaioslin/status/1262420410123071488?s=20)

IMO, the phenomenon described in that paper--the affinity of anti-CCP Chinese liberals with Trump--is almost like the inverse of this tankie-ism you guys just discussed. It's really fascinating.

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