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Responding to Zhang Weiwei – Democracy and China

I would like to thank btbr403 for translating Zhang’s article that was recently posted on to Fools Mountain. In it he said that he had never found an example of a developing country that had “realized its modernization through democratization”... ...full story at Blogging For China

from Blogging For China on Tue, Sep 29 2009

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