The China Trap

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‘Tank Man,’ Tiananmen Square, 1989

If there’s one thing we Americans are consistently good at, it’s getting China wrong.

I remember sitting in a Godfather’s Pizza in Baton Rouge, in June 1989, fresh out of college, having lunch, and reading every single word in The New York Times about the Tiananmen Square Massacre. There were a lot of words. It was a wo…