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The real modern China

The rise of modern China is arguably the greatest and most consequential story of our time. And as Frank Dikotter highlights in his new book, China After Mao: The Rise of a Superpower, it is a tale of greed, violence, and inequality. The great historian of the Mao era has now moved to our own time, and he comes to the present day with a warning. By banking on the Chinese Communist Party somehow liberalizing, the West has made one of the gravest miscalculations in modern history. One would have to go back to the policy of appeasement in the 1930s to find something similar and even then, it must be noted Communist China today is vastly more powerful economically and technologically than either Imperial Japan or Nazi Germany. As Dikotter ably documents, the largest police state in world history, increasingly bellicose, stands on the bones of its people. And we can no longer afford to pretend otherwise. ....

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Xi Jinping is suffering from 'bad emperor syndrome'

Xi Jinping is suffering from 'bad emperor syndrome'
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