DJB July 2016: "Whereas the authoritarian CCP is implementing societal instrumentation, feedback and control systems to dampen instabilities, we have yet to demonstrate any pressing awareness, let alone articulate a compelling American counter-vision for the man-machine integration era. On the contrary, the “Disuniting of America”, of which US historian Arthur Schlesinger warned 25 years ago [65] is progressing, with all the instabilities such societal fragmentation and polarization entails. [..] It is thus not inconceivable that US citizens may select a model for the man-machine era at odds with our history; one that values utilitarian, finitely quantified measures over deontological individual rights endowed by a Creator. We may lose the Republic of the People to the People’s Republic."

November 19, 2022: https://news.cgtn.com/news/2022-11-19/Klaus-Schwab-Eye-on-global-governance-1f5j1FnfKvK/index.html during an interview with CGTN’s Tian Wei on the sidelines of last week’s APEC CEO Summit in Bangkok, Thailand.

Schwab said he respected China’s "tremendous" achievements at modernizing its economy over the last 40 years.

"I think it’s a role model for many countries," Schwab said, before qualifying that he thinks each country should make its own decisions about what system it wants to adapt.

"I think we should be very careful in imposing systems. But the Chinese model is certainly a very attractive model for quite a number of countries"