Winning the Battle for Chinese Hearts and Minds
The Chinese Communist Party is vulnerable at home to challenges to its legitimacy if America can show how ideas such as economic freedom, the rule of law, property rights, and religious freedom can bring greater benefits to the Chinese people than what the Party offers.
Seth D. Kaplan, a lecturer in the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University, lived in China for seven years and is an expert on political transitions.
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