“The teleology of history has us heading toward more openness and freedom, but has this new and very effective Chinese model hijacked history?” asks Orville Schell, of the Asia Society. “Hillary Clinton told you what she said because she believes it. She also knows full well that we’re at a kind of tipping-point moment. In a certain sense history ended, and then China started history again. We thought the Soviets were going to send history in a different direction, and they couldn’t, but the Chinese have a level of success in economic development that the Soviets never approached.”
via When Can the Chinese Expect Their Arab Spring?: Jeffrey Goldberg – Bloomberg.