The Year of the ‘China Model’

February 5, 2008

Ian Buruma

  • Ian Buruma is Professor of human rights at Bard College. His most recent book is Amsterdam: The Killing of Theo van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance.

    IT will be China’s year in 2008. The Olympic Games—no doubt perfectly organized, without a protester, homeless person, religious dissenter, or any other kind of spoilsport in sight—will probably bolster China’s global prestige. While the American economy gets dragged down furthe

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