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U.S. Academic Defends China, Citing Progress

The Wall Street Journal talks to Susan Brownell an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the the University of Missouri- St. Louis who was a nationally-ranked athlete in the United States before winning a gold medal for Beijing City in the 1986 Chinese National College Games: Ms. Brownell doesn’t dispute that China has problems, but she says many Western criticisms are hypocritical or ignor

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