319 | Frank Dikötter: Shattering the Myths of China After Mao
The Realignment
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The Double Standard
I call it the double standard. You can talk about anything and everything and anyone on planet Earth. Most of them are unable to place a medium sized country on a map. The moment you say China, the answer is, ah, but in China, things are different. So it's the so-called China difference. Of course it's not. Just human beings like you and me. They may be different, the differences of degree, not of kind. I think that's really the core of the issue. It's the need for so many of us to think that there is something quite different"
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