Containment, Heroism, Fear and Lies
As my almost-empty Shanghai subway train pulled into a station in the middle of February, I came face-to-face with an ad for UnionPay, the Chinese debit card found in everyone’s wallet. All members of a [...]
Neither the social-justice-minded critics of the Chinese model nor those who praise its extraordinary achievements are without evidence for their assessments.
Clearly, something was astir at the 19th Congress of the Communist Party of China, that caught the attention of these spokespeople for global capitalism and planted the seeds of panic.
It is undoubtedly worthwhile to listen to what the Party itself says, to consider its own elaborations on the Chinese road to socialism, and to study what is actually occurring.
