Doug Bandow: How China’s Communist Regime Will Outlast The USSR’s

Smart economics, Western goodies, and cruel politics have helped Beijing avoid a Soviet-style collapse—for now. The collapse of the Soviet Union 74 years after the Bolshevik revolution was supposed to herald the end of communism. Yet the People’s Republic of China lives on, 72 years after Mao Zedong famously proclaimed the founding of the PRC in Beijing. That regime is on course to outlast the