Jottings from the Granite Studio

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China Is Not Just Rising, but Also Changing

September 9th, 2006 · No Comments

Mao biographer Ross Terrill, of Harvard’s Fairbanks Center, has an op/ed in this morning’s NYT. Most of his assessments won’t surprise veteran China watchers and I think he may be a bit too optimistic about economics driving China toward positive political change (what of the devil we don’t know?) Overall, however, this is a good [...]

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