The Hill News

A closer look at China in the post-Cold War years reveals a much different picture: a country facing inward to develop the brains, heart and courage to make the most of the modern world.

While China’s inexorable economic advance over the past two decades has made it now a force to be reckoned with, doubts about its true strength have remained prevalent. Despite evidence to the contrary, Westerners assumed that China’s economy would not really thrive unless it began to adopt Western-style democracy, observe international human-rights conventions and develop the technological proficiency to begin producing specialized, non-commodity goods.

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