breaking the conventional thinking: the China fantasy

When people come to China they often want a quick flicks on the question what is China's biggest problem, often business people, journalists? I'm mostly tell them they are their own biggest problems. Breaking the mould of conventional thinking is becoming now more important than ever.
New insights on how Chinese companies are conducting their price wars as a part of an intelligent strategy I found groundbreaking on management practises. The book The China Fantasy by James Mann seems to be doing the same for the political thinking on China. For the review of the Washington Post:

The China Fantasy raises an awkward and important question: What if there is a third alternative between the rise of democracy and the collapse of China's political order? What if that alternative is the survival of the one-party state, with all its apparatus of control and repression?

Its again the foreigners looking at China who have to deal with their own illusions. When the system as we know it now is going to stay, we will have to deal with it - and with the huge changes that take place in the system itself. I just ordered the book, so you might hear more about this subject.