August 4, 2000
Where Did the Chinese Government Learn Its Authoritarian Ways?
A variety of scholars, including leading Sinologists like William Theodore de Bary and Tu Weiming, have pointed out a major flaw in both Samuel P. Huntington's approach to contemporary global conflict -- in The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (Simon & Schuster, 1996) -- and the "Asian values" defense that Pacific Rim regimes sometimes offer for their authoritarian practices. Both Huntington and Asian apologists for repression, the scholars argue, play down the
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