What Is the Chinese Dream?
When
I first arrived in China, I wrote the one and only "I've just arrived, and
here is what I'm wondering" article that
journalistic convention permits each writer on first immersion in a country.
Among the questions I said I wanted to answer was, What is the Chinese dream?
Nearly
six years later, I realize that it's a silly or meaningless question, since for
the foreseeable future the country's ambitions will be fully satisfied by
allowing hundreds of millions of people to realize their individual and family
dreams. Grandparents who can live in reasonable health and security to an old
age? Great. Students whose education makes the most of their abilities and who
have the chance to do their best around the world? Better still. After China's
centuries of seeming to move backward as a society and its more recent decades
of tragedy and turmoil, the simple bourgeois comforts are much of what the
modern Chinese miracle could and should provide.
But there
is a way in which the question does make sense, as an expression of concern
about what the rise of a "non-universal" nation will mean for the
rest of the world.
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