Here in the States, Thomas Friedman mused on the Chinese government’s idyllic governing arrangement with its subjects people — one in which the relative non-messiness of competing ideas and dissident expression allows the ChiComs to get things done. Cleanly. Efficiently. Progressively! And now, not to be outdone, we have Stephen Kinzer agitating in the Guardian for an end to “human rights imperialism” — which is essentially a kind of updated
