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The Unchanging Chinese Communist Party

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The Unchanging Chinese Communist Party
Chinese leader Mao Zedong meets with representatives of the revolutionary teachers and students from Peking and other parts of the country in August 1966. Mao launches the decade-long Cultural Revolution to reassert his authority. Schools are shut, youthful Red Guards attack political enemies, and intellectuals are persecuted or driven to suicide. AP Photo
Clyde Prestowitz
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Le Figaro editor Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr wrote in 1849 that “the more things change, the more they remain the same thing.”

Clyde Prestowitz
Clyde Prestowitz
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Clyde Prestowitz is an Asia and globalization expert, a veteran U.S. trade negotiator, and presidential adviser. He was the leader of the first U.S. trade mission to China in 1982 and has served as an adviser to Presidents Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Clinton, and Obama. As counselor to the secretary of commerce in the Reagan administration, Prestowitz headed negotiations with Japan, South Korea, and China. His newest book is "The World Turned Upside Down: America, China, and the Struggle for Global Leadership," which was published in January 2021.
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