State of defiance

By John Garnaut
Updated November 9 2012 - 3:04pm, first published December 3 2010 - 2:15pm

Chinese officials are fond of telling foreign journalists that we should dispel our prejudices by going down to the countryside and seeing "the real China". The trouble is, when I heed this advice, the realities of China's money politics, ever-expanding political-security apparatus and disregard for its own laws often turn out to be more serious than I previously imagined.

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