Orville Schell on Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines http://www.truthdig.com/orville_schell Truthdig, a Web magazine that provides expert in-depth coverage of current affairs as well as a variety of thoughtful, provocative content assembled from a progressive point of view. Editor, Robert Scheer. Publisher, Zuade Kaufman. en editor@truthdig.com Copyright 2005 2005-12-03T17:43:00+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/ http://www.truthdig.com/images/rss_feed_promo.gif Truthdig logo In Response to… http://www.truthdig.com/dig/blogitem/20051202in_response_to/ http://www.truthdig.com/dig/blogitem/20051202in_response_to/ china, communist, democracy, economy, environmental, institutions, legitimacy, peace, political, values, China I would agree that things in China have gone far better than anyone predicted during the dark post-1989 days. But, what explains that success? Good visionary planning? Strong leadership? A national psyche exhausted by any kind of turmoil? Good luck?

The danger is that even the best economy tends to be cyclical, and it is far from clear that China has the political legitimacy, deeply enough rooted political institutions, or shared set of values to help it survive a downturn.

As to Wintermute and whether Taiwan is worth fighting for… I personally do not believe that any functioning democracy is worth throwing over the side to keep some other sort of the peace - commercial or otherwise. We Americans forget…

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At the same time that China is recording huge increases in trade surpluses and currency reserves, deadly riots are breaking out on the outskirts of some of the country’s largest cities. In this Dig, scholar Orville Schell challenges the current wisdom about China being an inevitable superpower and unstoppable economic force.

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