China's New Red Guards Green China is the sole exception

China is the sole exception

including political pluralism

including the North Vietnamese commanders

single-engine rocket aimed toward the skies

from the acclaimed author of The Dead and Those About to Die

China's New Red Guards Green China is the sole exceptionEver since Deng Xiaoping effectively de radicalized China in the 1980s, there have been many debates about which path China would follow. Would it democratize? Would it embrace capitalism? Would the Communist Party's rule be able to withstand the adoption and spread of the Internet? One debate that did not occur in any serious way, however, was whether Mao Zedong would make a political comeback. As Jude Blanchette details in China's New Red Guards,