Are the Tiananmen Papers fake? Ezra F. Vogel, in his monumental Deng Xiao Ping and the Transformation of China [2011], has the best discussion. He…
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Tag: General Elections & Political Process
The Tiananmen Papers – Part 1
Are the Tiananmen Papers fake? These papers are purportedly explosive records of private meetings and private discussions of Chinese leaders during the Tiananmen protests in…
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Nelson Mandela
Nelson Mandela when he died in 2013, at age 95, was universally acclaimed as a political saint. The facts known to laymen were that this…
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The China Model: Political Meritocracy and the Limits of Democracy
This book was picked as one of the Financial Times’ best books of 2015. In 2016 the paperback version was published with a new preface…
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China & US
If the legal challenges filed by Trump fail, Biden will be the new President. China – US relations are likely to have a reset. Reading…
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