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With coronavirus crisis, China sees a chance to export its model of governance | South China Morning Post
For several decades, China has been manufacturing and exporting almost everything across the globe, thus gaining status as the world s factory. More recently, China has taken the lead in exporting innovative technologies. Amid the ongoing Covid-19 crisis, some people have also accused China of exportingHowever, we should not miss the evolution of China s newest export: the Chinese model of governance (and political ideas underpinning it) as an alternative to the Western liberal model. This export is strategic because mere economic might will not suffice to sustain China s superpower status.
Rather, as the West has in the past, China would also need to influence social, political and cultural landscapes in other countries in its quest for dominance.
China s governance model is built on concentration of power by a small group of leaders, making all state institutions, prioritising economic development over human rights, using law as a tool to suppress civil liberties, treating
as a threat to national unity, using media as a tool for government propaganda, and invoking national sovereignty as a shield to ward off any criticism of the government s human rights record.
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