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George Walden specialised in China at the Foreign Office and was
one of the few Westerners in China in 1964 who spoke Mandarin. In
this razor-sharp analysis he argues that we compare the country to
Britain or the United States at our peril. The Chinese juggernaut
that has launched on to the world stage is of a size without any
precedent in human history. Every year 30 million Chinese migrate
from the countryside to the city. The only way to grasp what our
future with China is going to be like for the next 30 years is to
view its culture and insecurities on its own terms.
Far from becoming classless, Britain's elite is increasingly formed
by a select group of professional egalitarians. Rather than aim to
raise popular aspirations, they exploit mass taste, mass
gullibility, mass spending power for their personal advancement.
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