China's many crises, above and below the surface, via Jeremy Hurewitz.
China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Wang Wenbin gestures during a daily briefing at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Beijing, Friday, July 24, 2020. China ordered the United States on Friday to close its consulate in the western city of Chengdu, ratcheting up a diplomatic conflict at a time when relations have sunk to their lowest level in decades. in the mid-2000s, the big conversation was focused on how China would overtake the U.S. on the international stage.
Such understandings were buttressed by the financial crisis later in the decade. Chinese breakthroughs in artificial intelligence, green technology, and its continued double-digit economic growth further strengthened its reputation. I always thought the pundits had it wrong on China. My skeptical views were always rooted in more than economic fundamentals or a partisan opinion on the value of democracy over autocracy. While China has made some stunning advances for its people — pulling hundreds of millions out of poverty — and has much to offer the world, it faces a moral reckoning.
Mao Zedong's"Great Leap Forward" killed approximately 45 million people, while the Cultural Revolution saw ancient treasures and even more lives destroyed. The Tiananmen Square massacre was another tragedy, snuffing out voices of humanism and entrenching a dictatorial regime. The lack of an open discussion in China about these events will come back to haunt it.
I moved to China after seven years in the Czech Republic, where I witnessed a very public reckoning with the sins of its recent Communist past. It was imperfect, but that process contributed to putting the country on the road to prosperity. Around the same time, South Africa set up the Truth & Reconciliation Committee to deal with the horrors of apartheid. In the U.S.
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