Susan Shirk Quoted in The Sacramento Bee
Editorial: China plays bully with Nobel Prize
11/12/2010
The Sacramento Bee
After decades of self-isolation, China in the last three decades has opened to the world and undergone one of the greatest economic transformations in recorded history. Economically and culturally, China has become an impressive player on the world stage – showing confidence and strength.
But the announcement of the Nobel Peace Prize for a Chinese dissident in October – and the shrill Chinese reaction to it – revealed an altogether different side: a brittle, defensive one-party regime unable to handle criticism and willing to bully others into submission.
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Susan Shirk is director of the University of California system-wide Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation and Ho Miu Lam professor of China and Pacific Relations at IR/PS.
She founded in 1993 and continues to lead the Northeast Asia Cooperation Dialogue (NEACD), an unofficial “track-two” forum for discussions of security issues among defense and foreign ministry officials and academics from the United States, Japan, China, Russia, and the Koreas.
