China’s scared, too: Behind every power, domestic insecurity lurks

Ethan Lou is the Opinion Editor in The Globe and Mail’s Report on Business. In the TV show House of Cards, a fictional Russian president tells his American counterpart that, despite not being a democracy, Moscow, too, is answerable to the people. “You don’t understand Russia,” Viktor Petrov tells the U.S. president. “If people don’t like the job you’re doing, they vote you out of office. If they don’t like the job I’m doing, they topple statues. Blood is spilled. Chaos takes over.” In fact, not only is the cost of political defeat greater, such defeat is also harder to…