Not Quite What I Expected
BEIJING — Just a few days into this trip, I’ve met with two government officials here, and I have to admit, they were not what I was expecting. And I was a little surprised at what they had to say. This is probably as much, if not more of a reflection on me and my culture than on them and theirs. What was the title of the previous blog post? This Isn’t Your Father’s Communism? Indeed. Being 36 years old, I’m old enough to remember the Cold War between the U.S. and the former Soviet Union. It seemed like when I was a kid, there were headlines every other week in the...
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