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If your idea of free speech runs from swastikas to socialism, you will find those at the University of Sydney. If you prefer reasoned debates, you will find those, too. In fact, you’ll find lots of speech, of all kinds. READ MORE

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China is overextended, overcommitted, and facing the end of a forty-year boom. Now is the time to push it toward real reform. READ MORE

Xi Jinping has called China’s process of reform and opening “a great revolution in the history of the Chinese people and the Chinese nation,” but mostly it represents a return to the pre-1949 normal. READ MORE