From China Fantasy To China Nightmare

By: Ian Easton | TAIPEI TIMES |

In 2007, James Mann published [The China Fantasy: Why Capitalism Will Not Bring Democracy to China.] [The book] sent shockwaves through the entire China-watching world. … A full decade later … Xi Jinping (習近平) proved Mann’s point once and for all at the 19th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, where he dismantled China’s collective leadership model and made himself a Mao-like dictator. Shortly thereafter, the U.S. government finally acknowledged its China policy was demonstrably fraudulent and needed fixing…

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