Monday Edition — How the Chinese Government Really Works: Merit, Consensus, and Control
How the Chinese government really works
China is not what you think it is.
Unless you’ve spent time in China or studied China, the information you have is more propaganda than information, particularly if you are from the West and even more so if you are from the US.
China is portrayed as a dystopian police state in which everyone is under constant surveillance and living in fear. Its govern…
