How China Won and Russia Lost

By Paul R. Gregory and Kate Zhou. Two dissimilar economic paths

Each country seems to have learned the wrong lesson from the other — China that political reform will destroy the Communist Party and Russia that only a strong authoritarian leader can make reform succeed. China’s ruling party continues to resist political change. Putin and Medvedev continue to strengthen authoritarian control.
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