China Horizon, The¶
Metadata¶
- Author: Weiwei Zhang
- ASIN: B01GJ4VXS8
- ISBN: 1938134737
- Reference: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01GJ4VXS8
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Highlights¶
Usually those who are most critical of their country at home tend to change their minds faster once they’re in the West, as they tend to have too rosy a picture of the West before they go overseas and their impression of the US and Europe comes mainly from watching movies and advertisements of the Western countries, vastly out of touch with the reality in the West.” — location: 169 ^ref-8267
Over the past 20 years, the wealth of most Americans has not increased, but decreased. — location: 196 ^ref-53974
Taiwan, a so-called democracy for more than 20 years with a population of 23 million, less than that of Shanghai. — location: 256 ^ref-35338
Rather it is perhaps the flawed American political system that is more to blame. Many American investors have fattened their own pockets through their operations in China, but the American political system is now unable to channel a reasonable part of these profits to the ordinary Americans. — location: 841 ^ref-51414
three presumptions underpinning the democracy in action in much of the world today are perhaps its three “genetic defects”: namely, (1) human beings are rational; (2) rights are absolute; and (3) procedures are omnipotent. — location: 1069 ^ref-26026
The core content of the China model is to tackle the relationship among economic reform, social reform and political reform in a down-to-earth and rational manner. — location: 1401 ^ref-7177
Deng Xiaoping put forward three criteria for assessing the quality of a political system: first, whether the country is politically stable; second, whether the system and policies help to strengthen unity among the people and to raise their living standards (note: Deng placed people’s unity and people’s livelihood together); and third, whether the productivity keeps developing.” — location: 2183 ^ref-7802