Ying Zhu published “China Travels Back Down the River” on the Wall Street Journal‘s China Realtime Report.
Excerpt:
Faced with a slowing economy and mounting public frustration over corruption, China’s new leadership has signaled plans to reduce state control in economic matters while simultaneously tightening control over politics and ideology. That bifurcation between economic liberalization and political repression is reminiscent of an earlier era, when economic uncertainty coupled with the party’s failure to tackle official corruption and refusal to allow a more liberal political climate led to the 1989 student uprising.
