Bear in a China Shop
Against a swelling chorus of bearism, Arthur Kroeber argues that China is likely to continue its economic ascent. But, he writes, although “China will likely surpass the United States as the world’s top economy … until it solves its fairness problem, it will remain a second-rate society.” ...
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While I’m personally of the opinion that no one can in honesty deny China’s social problems, Mr. Kroeber should nevertheless choose his words more carefully. Is he implying, with the sentence “[China] will “remain” a “second-rate society,”" that the object of comparion, the US, is a “first-rate society”?
Mr. Krober is entitled to his beliefs, but an objective journalist should exercise more thought with his or her vocabulary.
I’m slightly disappointed that CDT chose to add this one to the archive; it fails as a piece of objective journalism and falls instead under the too rampant US-clout-stroking category. I hadn’t realized this was what CDT was geared towards.
It makes no attempt to be a piece of “objective journalism”: it’s an op-ed piece from Foreign Policy’s Argument section.