China’s challenges demand its leaders be bold

Rosemary Righter: Economic view This December, China reaches a milestone more important by far than the Beijing Olympics. It will be 30 years since Deng Xiaoping set China on the course of “reform and opening up”, effectively ditching the Maoist dogmas that had turned the hopes vested in the 1949 revolution into tragedy for tens of millions and unnecessary poverty for the great mass of China’s people. Time, then,... [read full story]