大象传媒

The cementing of China鈥檚 President Xi Jinping鈥檚 authoritarian rule over the country earlier this month has rendered as effectively impotent the West's post-Soviet efforts to persuade the Chinese to adopt liberal democracy.

Instead, having given them access to mass markets and World Trade Organisation membership, Europe and the US now face a China that has harnessed and adapted the capitalist model to its self-interested ends without conceding its ideology.
So has the West fundamentally misunderstood China for the past three decades?