Lumifer comments on Neo-reactionaries, why are you neo-reactionary? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Lumifer 21 November 2014 02:30:40AM *  0 points [-]

True. China, actually, is a stronger example since Japan is nicely isolated geographically.

And speaking of pragmatic forms of government, Japan, um, has problems. China, too, of course.

Comment author: Azathoth123 21 November 2014 08:55:39AM 1 point [-]

China, actually, is a stronger example since Japan is nicely isolated geographically.

Until western contact, China had no other state of comparable power to define itself against.