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China and America are locked in destructive co-dependence
The global superpowers need each other for economic reasons they would rather not admit.
Rana ForooharContributorWhat’s the best language through which to understand the complex events of the world today? Is it economic? Political? Cultural? I’ve begun to think it might be psychological.
Psychologists (at least many of those I know) tend to divide the world into two types of personalities: paranoids, who operate as if they are always playing a zero-sum game; and depressives, who are more willing to embrace nuance (and thus sadness).
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