- Quite an achievement: NZ now has free trade deals with China and Taiwan. (We'll have more on this later in the week.)
- I've linked countless times to the New Yorker's China correspondent, Evan Osnos. Here's his farewell to the country.
- Kerry Brown examines the China Dream, a phrase 'that seems to pepper almost every major utterance made by leaders in Beijing'. And here's more on the Chinese Dream.
- James Fallows on China's pilot carbon trading schemes, based on a Californian model.
- 'A lot of people throughout history have been the victims of appalling suppression and brutality. I don’t know of any other great nation, however, that hangs on to these humiliations and brings them up at every possible opportunity to stoke the flames of nationalism.'
- Can China live with slower growth? Rhetorical emphasis is moving towards the quality of growth.
- English translation of an article by a senior Party official on democracy, 'a developing political trend that cannot be reversed'.
- And on the other side of this debate, Eric Li, an articulate defender of Chinese authoritarianism (h/t All Roads Lead to China). Here's a critique of Li's talk:
China links: Democracy, Osnos, carbon trading, China Dream and more
Published 15 Jul 2013
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