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The China Fantasy: How Our Leaders Explain Away Chinese Repression

By James Mann
Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
Unabridged — 4 hours, 15 minutes
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By James Mann
Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
Unabridged — 4 hours, 15 minutes
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Does America’s policy toward China make sense? In this vigorous look at China’s political evolution and its future, Mann explores two scenarios popular among our policy elite. The soothing scenario foresees the gradual spread of democracy and human rights. In the upheaval scenario, the contradictions in Chinese society between rich and poor and between the openness of the economy and the unyielding Leninist system will eventually lead to a revolution, chaos, or collapse.

Mann poses a th…