My friend Dror has put up an interesting post on Thomas Friedman’s controversial column that I wrote about yesterday. Dror fears that many of us, dazzled by gushing reports of China’s success a la Friedman, will get a distorted picture of a... ...full story at Peking Duck
from Peking Duck on Fri, Sep 11 2009
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