The Boston Globe, October 18th, 2007
THE SPEECH by China's president, Hu Jintao, to the Communist Party Congress on Monday was a reminder of how much the world misses George Orwell. Hu's touting of "scientific development" - a doctrine that is now to be enshrined along with Marxism-Leninism and Mao Zedong-thought as a guiding concept for China - would have been recognized by the author of "1984" as a familiar example of linguistic deceit. There has been rapid and dramatic economic growth in China since Mao's death three decades ago. But there is nothing scientific about development that is poisoning the air, contaminating the wat...
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