1.0 link 60079 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tom-doctoroff/china-rising-yes-chinese-_b_60079.html China experts generally fall into two polarized camps: starry-eyed optimists and self-righteous pessimists. The former are convinced that China will become a peaceful superpower and a pillar of the global economy. The latter survey the PRC's unproductive industry and morally ambiguous commercial terrain with premonition of disaster. Oligarchic dictatorships and capitalism don't mix. The country's economic institutions are primitive and, worse yet, schizophrenic. It's a Communistic bazaar, a clanging oxymoron destined for either implosion or explosion. China both enrages and...

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