Chapter 8
China
“Having and admitting failures is critical to overall success.” (82% agree)
Aside from the most elementary comments about burgeoning cities and rural poverty, nothing you can say about China in the twenty-first century constitutes a simple truth. The country is Communist, but it is also capitalist. (Hence the Rolls-Royces we saw parked just blocks from Mao's tomb in Beijing.) Chinese businesspeople and political dissidents are hemmed in by the authorities, except when they are free to innovate and agitate. China is traditional and modern, rich and poor, confident and insecure.
In Shanghai, China's largest city, supermodern skyscrapers ...
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