China insider reveals how the West gets Beijing so wrong
In a new book, the London School of Economics’ Keyu Jin says China is developing a unique economic and political playbook for the next phase of its evolution.
London | In the late 1990s, when a teenager named Keyu Jin arrived in New York from China for a high-school exchange program, she found that although Americans were keenly interested in her fast-emerging country they knew remarkably little about it.
“I was very surprised by how narrow the view on China was, and there were only a selected few things that seemed to represent China, when we were doing so many amazing things transforming the country,” she says.
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Hans van Leeuwen covers British and European politics, economics and business from London. He has worked as a reporter, editor and policy adviser in Sydney, Canberra, Hanoi and London. Connect with Hans on Twitter. Email Hans at hans.vanleeuwen@afr.com
