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How China Is Ruled: Why It's Getting Harder for Beijing to Govern
Ist Teil von
Foreign Affairs, 2014-01, Vol.93 (1), p.74-84
Ort / Verlag
New York: Council on Foreign Relations
Erscheinungsjahr
2014
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China had three revolutions in the twentieth century. The first was the 1911 collapse of the Qing dynasty. After a protracted period of strife came the second revolution, in 1949, when Mao Zedong and his Communist Party won the Chinese Civil War and inaugurated the People's Republic of China. The third revolution is ongoing, and so far, its results have been much more positive. It began in mid-1977 with the ascension of Deng Xiaoping, who kicked off a decades-long era of unprecedented reform that transformed China's hived-off economy into a global pacesetter, lifting hundreds of millions of Chinese out of poverty. China's past reforms have created new circumstances to which its leaders must quickly adapt. Reform is like riding a bicycle: either you keep moving forward or you fall off. The dangers of standing still outweigh those of forging ahead, and China can only hope that its leaders recognize this truth and push forward, even without knowing where exactly they are headed.