'Second Cultural Revolution' is transforming Chinese society
(NEWSER) - Western democracies shouldn't stop asking China's leaders tough questions on human rights, but they also need to understand the huge task that lies before China and recognize the progress the nation has already made, writes Tony Blair. The number of Chinese below the World Bank poverty line has dropped 80% over the last 25 years, the former British prime minister writes in the Wall Street Journal. The country of 1.3 billion people is still undergoing an economic and political transformation on a scale that dwarfs anything else in history, he notes. More»
