Autocrats, on the Knife’s Edge

Source: The Dispatch
by Kevin D Williamson

“When people in the West are reading about civil unrest in China, things in China are bad — normally, Beijing does a reasonably effective job of suffocating news about domestic political discontent. As the Wall Street Journal reports, there has been a rush of knife attacks, vehicular homicides, and things of that nature that have the men who rule China on the edge. I do not have a lot of the hell-raising Jefferson-Jackson element in me — I’m an Adams-Adams-Eisenhower man — but, upon reading the Journal’s report, my first thought was: ‘These people need guns. Lots of guns.'” (12/17/24)

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