China no longer seems to be in danger of following the USSR’s fate, instead Britain and the US are heading in that direction
Long after the Tiananmen Square incident in 1989, Westerners and, secretly, even some within China, were thinking that if the communist country was going to follow the decline and fall of the Soviet Union, the crackdown would have been the trigger.
But history is full of surprises.
Nowadays, some prominent intellectuals in the Anglo-American world are fretting over whether their own countries are looking a lot like the late Soviets. The historical parallels they have drawn are plausible.
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