If China becomes as the US is today in world-power terms – which it will: get the Mandarin textbooks out folks – yet keeps its current regime and outlook, US history will look like a legend of saints. That is why the pressure has to be kept up on China to reform its political institutions and human rights record – systematically one of the worst in the world: experto crede, I had years’ worth of attendance at the UN Commission and Sub-Commission on Human Rights in Geneva, lobbying on China matters, and know the litany of charges by heart – because we or our children are going to be very influenced by decisions made in Beijing.
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