Quotation of the Day…

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… is from page 61 of the print-edition version, in the January/February 2025 issue of Reason, of Johan Norberg’s excellent essay “The Real Threat Is An Isolated China” (emphasis added):

The country [China] desperately needs a new engine of growth, and that can come only from innovation and disruption. But that is exactly what control freaks are afraid of, and Xi has systematically cracked down on independent entrepreneurs. The very authoritarianism that makes China so scary is what stops it from becoming the leader of the world.