The beast that is China's ruling party

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Review of The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers by Richard McGregor was originally published in the Vancouver Sun on August 14, 2010.

In the spring of 2006, I enrolled in a curious course at the B.C. Institute of Technology in Vancouver. It was called the "Fundamentals of Doing Business with China," but it turn out to be more like "Leninism 101."Our instructor, Lawrence Gu, had just become dean of Canada's first Confucius Institute, a partnership between BCIT and the Chinese ...