Lynette Ong Describes How China Outsources Repression

The state is able to take advantage of the social capital by deploying social actors and in exercising social capital, through the process of persuasion. They'll be putting on pressure on these families, but the pressures being put on them are social pressures. People would often cave into this social pressure. So, there is compliance, but it doesn't feel like state repression. Lynette Ong Become a Patron! Make a one-time Donation to Democracy Paradox. A full transcript is available at www...

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