Even in the US, the cry is heard: Go east, young man! "If I were a young journalist today, figuring out where I should go to make my career, I would go to China," said Philip Bennett, The Washington Post's managing editor, in a fawning interview with The People's Daily in Beijing a few weeks back.
Zhao of the Times is not alone in his fate: China jails more journalists than any other country in the world.
On the one hand, there's the China the world gushes over - the economic powerhouse that makes just about everything in your house.
How long can these two systems co-exist in one country and what will happen when they collide? If the People's Republic is now the workshop of the world, the Communist Party is the bull in its own China shop.
China manufactures the products for some of the biggest brands in the world, but it's also the biggest thief of copyrights and patents of those same brands.
The new China's contempt for the concept of intellectual property arises from the old China's contempt for the concept of all private property: because most big Chinese businesses are government-controlled, they've failed to understand the link between property rights and economic development.
China won't advance to the First World with its present borders intact.
https://www.steynonline.com/10149/the-false-front-superpower?fbclid=IwAR33my0pyzSye02VfiIAadoFvZmQkVXQNlYrVMNpM1Ox7TzqY8kduqx2vQk
Zhao of the Times is not alone in his fate: China jails more journalists than any other country in the world.
On the one hand, there's the China the world gushes over - the economic powerhouse that makes just about everything in your house.
How long can these two systems co-exist in one country and what will happen when they collide? If the People's Republic is now the workshop of the world, the Communist Party is the bull in its own China shop.
China manufactures the products for some of the biggest brands in the world, but it's also the biggest thief of copyrights and patents of those same brands.
The new China's contempt for the concept of intellectual property arises from the old China's contempt for the concept of all private property: because most big Chinese businesses are government-controlled, they've failed to understand the link between property rights and economic development.
China won't advance to the First World with its present borders intact.
https://www.steynonline.com/10149/the-false-front-superpower?fbclid=IwAR33my0pyzSye02VfiIAadoFvZmQkVXQNlYrVMNpM1Ox7TzqY8kduqx2vQk
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