POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN BY THE DAILY TELEGRAPH'S DANIEL HANNAN
I must say that likely nothing could give one a more one-sided view than working with émigrés.
I also don't think China is all that secret today. People come and go all the time.
I know many young people from the mainland, having taught freshman economics to visa students.
I find them a remarkable group of young people, promising in every way, and it is a nation's people that are its greatest resource.
The process that created the modern institution of democracy is well known to historians of economic development.
Europe was the first to undergo it, but there is nothing about Europe that makes it peculiar to that continent.
Chinese political and social institutions are changing already at a rapid rate, and they will change a great deal more.
Rapid economic growth wears away old ways of doing things. It is truly revolutionary. It is what caused everything we know in Western Europe since the Dark Ages.
CHINA AND DEMOCRACY CONSIDERED FURTHER - DEMOCRACY COMES
