China is exporting something simpler, and indeed more corrosive to Western pre-eminence, than the individual nuts and bolts of its colossal thirty-year transformation. This is the basic idea of market-authoritarianism. Beyond everything else that China sells to the world, it functions as the world’s largest billboard advertisement for the new alternative of “going capitalist and staying autocratic.” Beijing has provided the world’s most compelling, high-speed demonstration of how to liberalize economically without surrendering to liberal politics.