Heterodox
Another side of the narrative. Longish and detailed, including eyewitnesses to events. US-supported attempt at regime change, with US spin after its failure? While the article doesn't mention it, the chief opponents of the present Chinese policy comes from Marxist-Leninist student that think the socialist revolution is being betrayed.Checkpoint AsiaEverything About the BBC/CNN Account of Tiananmen Square Is a Lie Godfree RobertsSee alsoThe Truth About the Iconic Tiananmen “Tank Man”...
Read More »How China became a market economy–Review of Julian Gewirtz’s “Unlikely Partners”
A view of the development of market socialism with Chinese characteristics. Julian Gewirtrz’s “Unlikely Partners” charts, with an extraordinary attention to detail, these world-historic decisions and focuses on the role that foreign economists played in these early stages of China’s transformation. But while the declared focus of the book is on the foreign-to-Chinese interaction and cooperation, with the high point (extremely well described) being a week-long cruise-seminar in August 1985...
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