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Yuen Yuen Ang
Professor, Political Science at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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Is China Back?
Over the past two months, China’s leadership has announced major policy reversals that have left global investors and other observers bullish about its economic future. But, writes, Yuen Yuen Ang correcting past errors is no substitute for the reforms that are needed to deliver robust long-term growth.

The False Dichotomy of Autocracy and Democracy
Unlike the old superpower contest between the United States and the Soviet Union, the incipient cold war between China and the US does not reflect a fundamental conflict of unalterably opposed ideologies, argues Professor Yuen Yuen Ang. Instead, he argues, today’s Sino-American rivalry is popularly portrayed as an epic battle between autocracy and democracy.