5 Reasons Russia Isn't China – China Rants
www.themoscowtimes.com — Ever since Mikhail Gorbachev became general secretary 25 years ago last week, the world has compared China’s successful economic reforms, which were first set into motion in late 1978 under the leadership of Deng Xiaoping, with the Soviet Union’s and then Russia’s largely unsuccessful attempts to overhaul its economy. The conventional version is that Moscow somehow took the wrong path toward reform and things would have been a lot better had Russia copied the Chinese model. But this is an oversimplified analysis. The two countries are far too different for Russia to have copied China’s reform program in a cookie-cutter fashion.
Excellent article...wonder how this one came through? Google Alert? You're not reading The Moscow Times on a regular basis now, are you? But if you are, please post more of these and share some of the other goodness you might find there. I'm going to RSS them, methinks.
I think I picked it up, on twitter, through @Raykwong. I knew you'd like this one. Perfect mix of two culture groups you're involved with.
Ray always has seems to have the goodies, eh? -- just excellent. I've subscribed to Moscow Times' RSS feed in case anything similar makes an appearance anytime soon. :-)