“It used to be that everyone thought ‘Oh, we’ll get in there, get some capitalism going, and China will flip eventually.’ Well that hasn’t happened,” said Orville Schell, director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at the New York-based Asia…
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Will China Crush the Hong Kong Protests? Wall Street Journal
For anyone who observed the student-led mass protests that gripped Beijing’s Tiananmen Square for seven weeks in 1989, watching students fill the streets of Hong Kong in 2014 is a bittersweet experience. There is a natural instinct for Western observers—reared…
China Earthquake Prompts Debate on Role of Volunteers | Wall Street Journal
“The ambiguity with which Chinese authorities have faced civil society has always been profound and, of late, more evident,” said Orville Schell, director of the Asia Society’s Center on U.S.-China Relations. via China Earthquake Prompts Debate on Role of Volunteers…
U.S. Keeping Close Eye on Chinese Upheaval
“The U.S. is well advised to keep its distance from this,” said Orville Schell, director of the Asia Society’s Center on U.S.-China Relations. “There’s no benefit in our government interfering. The Chinese do not respond well, even if there is…