Chinese Capitalism
From The Economist: MOST people, particularly those living outside China, assume that the country’s phenomenal growth and increasing global heft are based on a steady, if not always smooth, transition...
View ArticleYasheng Huang: The China Growth Fantasy
In the Wall Street Journal, Yasheng Huang, author of Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics: Entrepreneurship and the State, debunks the “decoupling” theory: The fundamental problem, and a mortal bias...
View ArticleOn Vogel & Kissinger’s “Sino-Americana”
Science fiction author William Gibson has frequently argued that “novels set in imaginary futures are necessarily about the moment in which they are written“; that the real subject matter of ’1984′ was...
View ArticleThe Key to Bringing Democracy to China
At Foreign Policy, MIT’s Yasheng Huang suggests that the best way to promote democracy in China would be to stress elite self-interest over moral values. Huang also challenges the argument that asking...
View ArticleBlack Friday in Red China
November 11th was Singles Day—in Evan Osnos’ words, the “Chinese answer to Black Friday … an orgy of consumption on a level the world has rarely seen”. At The New Yorker, Osnos contrasts this festival...
View ArticleThe Post-Democratic Future Begins in China
At Foreign Affairs, Eric X. Li argues that China’s future lies with continued one-party rule, and that the Party’s adaptability, meritocracy and non-democratic legitimacy will carry it forward while...
View ArticleIn China, Slowdown Is a Bigger Danger Than Growth
While China’s rise is often seen as a threat to other nations, Citigroup’s Peter Orszag argues that the world has more to fear from a Chinese slowdown than from continued growth. Furthermore, he...
View ArticleEric X. Li: A Tale of Two Political Systems
In a newly published talk from last month’s TEDGlobal 2013 conference, venture capitalist Eric X. Li reprises his defense of China’s one-party system, arguing that contrary to Western assumptions, it...
View ArticleBeijing Listens to the People. What Does That Mean?
At The Washington Post last week, Simon Denyer reported on the expansion of Beijing’s efforts to gather data on public opinion, both online and through surveys: [… T]he government is trying to...
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