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March 18, 2013

Chinese Don't Want Western Democracy

Martin Jacques, Globe and Mail

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The problem with the Western debate about the nature of Chinese governance is the refusal to understand and engage with Chinese culture, the insistence on making sense of China in solely Western terms. You can’t. China is profoundly different and will remain so.

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