China - the empire of lies

"China’s economic “miracle” is rotting from within", says Guy Sorman in a great City Journal article on the China behind the facade. Some eye-opening details, such as how the Chinese communist government first created then covered up a huge AIDS epindemic and is abandoning tens of thousands of victims to it:

The Party’s primary concern is not improving the lives of the downtrodden; it seeks power more than it seeks social development. It expends extraordinary energy in suppressing Chinese freedoms—the media operate under suffocating censorship, and political opposition can result in expulsion or prison.