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Tuesday, June 17, 2003

# Posted 10:32 PM by Patrick Belton  

OF FASCES AND TIAN'ANMEN SQUARE: In this week's TNR (yes, Josh, I finally ponied up the $28 to pay an intern's salary...) Jasper Becker makes a good case that the relevant paradigm for understanding today's China isn't so much Maoist (or any other variant of) Communism, but Fascism - not Hitler's, yet that of Franco, Mussolini, and the young Japanese officers who cultivated the cult of the Shinto emperor. It's worth a read....
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