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China and the Future of Science – The Scholar's Stage

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THE CHINESE socio-political system differs from our own. From the perspective of the topic of this conference, here is the most salient distinction: the Chinese system has a telos. The Chinese part…

[ The following post is a polished transcript of a speech I recently gave to a private gathering of American technologists. Its contents may be of interest to a larger audience. -TG. ] THE CHINESE SOCIO-POLITICAL SYSTEM differs from our own. From the perspective of the topic of this conference, here is the most salient distinction: the Chinese system has a telos . The Chinese party-state is fundamentally a set of goal-oriented institutions. This is not unique to China—it is in fact a distinguishing feature of all Leninist systems. I sometimes think of Leninist systems as a little bit like that

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