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When you go too far to the nationalist right, you limit your coalition to only those who are both right-of-center and citizens of your country.But only China has the scale to really do everything in one country. Everyone else needs allies.Eco Tradeoff (@EcoTradeoff):@balajis "doesn’t get the idea of diplomacy, of building coalitions, of sometimes just not having the votes ...total independence from needing to work with others. They don’t understand political capital."How, in the world, is that more of a c ...