"For all its material successes, the CCP cannot offer its people a satisfying answer to the question: What is the point of all this efficiency?"
This question does not currently appear to bother the public in China very much. National greatness and a stable, prosperous society seem to be good enough answers for most Chinese (at least for the time being; attitudes may change). While there is arguably a "spiritual emptiness" at the heart of modern China, most of is people don't see changing the political system as the answer, even if they sense the problem.
The question is to what extent people in the rest of the world would be willing to accept a model like this.
"For all its material successes, the CCP cannot offer its people a satisfying answer to the question: What is the point of all this efficiency?"
This question does not currently appear to bother the public in China very much. National greatness and a stable, prosperous society seem to be good enough answers for most Chinese (at least for the time being; attitudes may change). While there is arguably a "spiritual emptiness" at the heart of modern China, most of is people don't see changing the political system as the answer, even if they sense the problem.
The question is to what extent people in the rest of the world would be willing to accept a model like this.