Gatekeeping is increasing more and more. The idea of gatekeeping is that the gatekeeper is the person who disseminates the news towards people, such as news agencies or paper companies or similar things. Since you have companies owning more and more news agencies at the same time, they basically can control what all the different news services will say, which means that anything that would not be considered to be valid news would be prevented from reaching people.
The practice of drawing district boundaries to the political advantage of the party in power is known as Gerrymandering.
If other western powers had divided china into colonies instead of accepting the open, then the United States would have likely suffered in trade and subsequently GDP, since China was a rich source of goods that represented a unique opportunity for business.
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