If Wang is telling the truth in that last bolded section, it's quite extraordinary. One of the common laments among U.S.-based international relations scholars is that there is no point in having a China-based scholar come to a conference on Sino-American relations, because the Chinese scholar inevitably clams up whenever the discussion turns to the thinking in Beijing. If Wang doesn't have to worry about that, it's a sign of his relative influence.
That said, what about his analysis?
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