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May 7, 2006


An Agile, Energetic Government?

Why China Won’t Slow Down, by Albert Keidel

This piece made me wince, especially near the end where he writes “[China’s] political system… is… nimble and robust.” I think Gordon Chang got it right when he wrote in The Coming Collapse of China:

“China’s economic miracle is nothing more than the state letting the Chinese be Chinese. The government hasn’t created anything; it has just gotten out of the way.”

This entry was posted on Sunday, May 7th, 2006 at 12:35 pm (utc+8) and is filed under Personal, China.

2 Responses to “An Agile, Energetic Government?”

  1. AK47 said:
    May 7th, 2006 at 11:57 pm

    Chang also predicted that the communist government will fail within 5 years. That was 2001, now it is 2006. The Chinese government is strong as ever.

  2. C. Maoxian said:
    May 8th, 2006 at 11:05 am

    AK47: True. Nevertheless he got a lot of other things right in his (highly repetitive) book.

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