by jpitney | Oct 1, 2021 | China
Minxin Pei, “China: Totalitarianism’s Long Shadow,” Democracy Journal, April 2021. The abstract: Rapid economic growth in China over the last four decades has failed to bring about democratization. Instead of undergoing evolutionary liberalization, the...
by jpitney | Jun 28, 2021 | China, Democracy
David Dreier, “Freedom Train,” World Affairs Vol. 172, No. 1 (SUMMER 2009), pp. 54-63. We have come a long way since 1989, that year of miracles when we felt, at least for a brief moment, that something fundamental about human freedom had been decided and...
by jpitney | Jun 14, 2021 | China, Reagan
H.R. McMaster at National Review: President Ronald Reagan’s speech in June 1987, delivered in the shadow of the Berlin Wall, is immortalized because of the exhortation, “Mr. Gobachev, tear down this wall.” Those words and that speech are often credited with...
by jpitney | Nov 23, 2020 | China, Civility
Alexander Hamilton, Feberalist 6: A man must be far gone in Utopian speculations who can seriously doubt, that if these States should either be wholly disunited, or only united in partial confederacies, the subdivisions into which they might be thrown would have...
by jpitney | Nov 16, 2020 | China, Trade
Keith Bradsher and Ana Swanson at NY Times: After eight years of talks, China and 14 other nations from Japan to New Zealand to Myanmar on Sunday formally signed one of the world’s largest regional free trade agreements, a pact shaped by Beijing partly as a...
by jpitney | May 10, 2020 | China, Technology
From the Congressional Research Service: According to the National Science Foundation’s 2017 survey of STEM doctorate recipients from U.S. IHEs, 72% of foreign doctorate recipients were still in the United States 10 years after receiving their degrees. This percentage...
