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An Imaginary Chinese Election
With all of the talk about Chinese democratization in the recent 17th National Congress, I wondered what a Mainland election would look like. Would it be like an American election, with Swift-Boat ads and fund raising bonanzas? It’s hard to know, and we’ll probably never see it, but it’s fun to imagine. Oh, wait, I [...]
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When Secretaries Attack
Don’t get me wrong, I would never publicly complain about colleagues and certainly never bosses. However, there is one particularly Chinese experience with someone at my office that I think is fairly telling about the culture here. It’s actually 2 experiences, but they happened 27 minutes apart, so I’ll combine them. (editor’s note: this did [...]
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Politicians Know Nothing about China
Yesterday I was listening to Real Time with Bill Maher when I heard former Democratic Presidential candidate, and ardent Hillary Clinton supporter, General Wesley Clark, make one of the weirdest statements I have ever heard about China. The panelists were discussing whether non-US born American citizens should be able to run for the White House [...]
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