China’s Global Critics Are Helping It Win

ANDREA VERDELLI / POOL / AFP

“China’s policymakers benefit from the democratic world’s economic and political openness. They use free nations’ discourse to identify their own foreign policy and technological shortcomings while building a firewall that keeps discussion of those shortcomings from ever occurring in China itself. ”

– Joshua Eisenman and Devin Stewart

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