the purpose of the authors is to shed light on the true history and open up people's mind. They implied the importance of a stable and democratic political infrastructure, but did not dare to elaborate too much.
the section on Russia is mostly junk and biased.
but the audience's true take-away is: now it is our time to "rise" and kick out those former global powers.... As to learning from other nations' mistakes, I do not think most Chinese really care.
People are just bliindly proud of their current achievements.
