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Thinking of China's Loyal Youth

By John Dermody, Travis Hodgkins, and Nema Milaninia

An editorial by Matthew Forney, former Beijing bureau chief for Time, entitled, China's Loyal Youth, explores some of the reasons why most young Chinese support their government's recent suppression of the Tibetan uprising. Forney's assessment of the next generation of Chinese-- those 30 years of age and under-- is interesting because it gives a cursory look at the future policy makers, lawyers, and businesspeople of the fastest growing economy in the world. Forney points out that China's youth probably doesn't remember the events of the Tiananmen Square Massacre. They probably don't think of China as a police state since they've...

Full post as published by Transnational Law Blog on April 16, 2008 (boomark / email).