Thinking About China
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Time to End China’s Economic Advantages as a ‘Developing Country’

Time to End China’s Economic Advantages as a ‘Developing Country’
A woman walks pass a billboard boasting of China's World Trade Organization membership along a street in Beijing on Dec. 19, 2003. Goh Chai Hin/AFP/Getty Images
Stu Cvrk
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The U.S. Congress is waking up to the realization that the wishes and hopes of the China engagement crowd over the past several decades—that communist China would moderate its aggressive behavior over time as a natural result of massive foreign investment and trade incentives—have been a complete failure.

Stu Cvrk
Stu Cvrk
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Stu Cvrk retired as a captain after serving 30 years in the U.S. Navy in a variety of active and reserve capacities, with considerable operational experience in the Middle East and the Western Pacific. Through education and experience as an oceanographer and systems analyst, Cvrk is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, where he received a classical liberal education that serves as the key foundation for his political commentary.
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