March 20, 2020
By Shalom Salomon Wald with an introduction by Dennis Ross), Jewish People Policy Institute
With permission; read the full article at JPPI.
This article offers assessments of China in a clear-eyed and nonpolemical fashion. It offers not an apology, but an explanation for why China, having suffered a century of humiliation by external powers in the 19th century, is focused on re-establishing its role in the world — a role it believes its global economic weight entitles it to have. The Chinese response to the coronavirus is a vivid reminder of the fear that constrains honest discussion or reporting or intellectual development in that vast country.
