What if the global economy had stayed closed to China? | American Enterprise Institute - AEI

What if the global economy had stayed closed to China? | American Enterprise Institute - AEI: Beijing’s effort to quash Hong Kong protests provides a vivid reminder that four decades after Deng Xiaoping’s economic reforms, China is not becoming Hong Kong. And according to American populist politicians and pundits, you can chalk up China’s failure to progress toward liberal democracy as a failure of American elite governance. As they see it, …