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This is going to sound tin-foil-hattish of me, but...

Maybe they think they don't need a long-term strategy. They only need to hold out short-term, until western governments take care of the problem for them.

With all the nonsense going on over kiddie pr0n, copyright infringement, etc., we are hearing a lot of scare stuff that would require even the "free world" to implement the kind of controlled infrastructure that China would love.

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I think the CCP is very long-term oriented.

The majority of their policies I think would support this. If anything, the CCP is willing to give short-term concessions if it will guarantee long-term success.

This is not so-much the case now as China has more to bring to the bargaining table. But if you look at China's trade policies in the 80s and 90s they were very accommodating to western demands, even if it put China in a weaker position.

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