The US historically exports the ideas of free trade, human rights, state sovereignty, and people finding their own way; if the US does not compete with China, China will export a different set of values to the world, including surveillance authoritarianism (requiring citizens to check an app confirming Xi Jinping thought) and absence of freedom of speech, assembly, and petition.
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Jim BakerEvidence Quote
“states as they grow powerful tend to export externally what their domestic context demands internally...we export the idea of free trade...human rights...state sovereignty...What will China export if we don't compete?...no one in this room had to check an app and confirm that you were reading Xi Jinping thought...Freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, freedom to petition the government...does not exist in the Chinese order.”
Created: 8/11/2026, 6:35:07 AM
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