China experts Minxin Pei and Jonathan Fenby left a group of grizzled policy veterans open-mouthed with astonishment at a Westminster lunch by Centre for European Reform.
They more or less said that China is reverting to full police-state Maoism, with sinister self-criticism sessions making a comeback. The reforms are skin deep, and the Communist Party is rapidly shutting off the last hope of averting a violent denouement.
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