{"id":1558,"date":"2021-05-02T23:41:06","date_gmt":"2021-05-02T21:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/?p=1558"},"modified":"2021-05-02T23:41:06","modified_gmt":"2021-05-02T21:41:06","slug":"autocracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/?p=1558","title":{"rendered":"Autocracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Once, authoritarian states were symbolised by the Soviet Union, which was seen as lumbering, clumsy and sclerotic. Now, the model is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/?p=327\">China<\/a>, which is nimble, strategic and fast. &#8216;The question is,&#8217; said Biden, &#8216;in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/?p=58\">democracy<\/a> that\u2019s such a genius as ours, can you get consensus in the timeframe that can compete with autocracy?'&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>aus: Richard McGregor: Biden and Xi talk of a clash of civilisations. But the real shared goal is dominance. The Guardian online, 2.5.21, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2021\/may\/02\/america-has-woken-up-to-the-threat-posed-by-china-it-may-already-be-too-late\">im Internet<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">05\/21<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Once, authoritarian states were symbolised by the Soviet Union, which was seen as lumbering, clumsy and sclerotic. Now, the model is China, which is nimble, strategic and fast. &#8216;The question is,&#8217; said Biden, &#8216;in a democracy that\u2019s such a genius as ours, can you get consensus in the timeframe that can compete with autocracy?&#8217;&#8221; aus: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1558"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1558"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1559,"href":"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1558\/revisions\/1559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}