Amid the political and economic changes of the early 2000s, it seemed unthinkable that China would revert back to Mao-era repression. But’s that’s exactly what happened.
Many observers, especially in the West but also in China itself, expected political reform and relaxation to occur as China grew wealthier and more accomplished. That has not happened.
Indeed, quite the opposite has taken place. It increasingly seems that China’s developing scientific and technological abilities and achievements, along with its increased financial strength, have taken the country into a tighter, more repressive state of totalitarianism not seen since the Mao years.
Dr. Minxin Pei, a professor of government at Claremont McKenna College in California, makes the case in his new book, “The Broken China Dream, How Reform Revived Totalitarianism,” that the “economic miracle” of China, and the con
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