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Just as Team USA’s World Cup victory over Iran qualified it for the knockout round, my fiance and I headed for a late lunch at the pub around the corner. In the heart of Old Town Alexandria, where Joe Biden beat Donald Trump by 55 points in 2020, dozens of Virginians decided to pack the place on a dreary Tuesday afternoon — some of them clad in American flag gear — to stand and salute the national anthem and cheer on the stars and stripes.

Hope in terms of changing that through sanctions, it will take decades. 33 years ago, 1989, i saw the students in tiananmen square bring the chinese state to a frozen halt for a month. and then, of course, the massacre that followed. nobody in the west thinks that the chinese communist party will lose its power over china. is it possible that what happened in 1989 might happen again? what happened in tiananmen square was a moment that has defined, if you like, everything that has happened since. the chinese communist party, from that moment in 1989, made up its mind. it believed, and still doe...

And then, of course, the massacre that followed. nobody in the west thinks that the chinese communist party will lose its power over china. is it possible that what happened in 1989 might happen again? what happened in tiananmen square was a moment that has defined, if you like, everything that has happened since. the chinese communist party, from that moment in 1989, made up its mind. it believed, and still does, that the reason the soviet union fell apart was through weakness, was through tolerating western values, by allowing those cracks to open up, into which those freedoms started to fil...

Made up its mind. it believed, and still does, that the reason the soviet union fell apart was through weakness, was through tolerating western values, by allowing those cracks to open up, into which those freedoms started to filter in. civil society organisations, dissidence not being restrained strongly enough. and i think the lesson that china has learned is that, you know, to hold on to power, you have to be absolutely ruthless. we do now find ourselves, once again, despite all of those thoughts back 33 years ago, as you say, that this was the end of history, that the world was moving ever...