The bleak future of China drew comment last week from a distinguished scholar who for five years has been stationed at Mao's doorstep: U.S. Ambassador to Japan Edwin O. Reischauer. Retiring from his post last week, the 55-year-old Tokyo-born Harvard professor, who has studied in China and written about the country, took the occasion to offer his own assessment of trends on the mainland.
Speaking to the Tokyo press, Reischauer described Mao's mainland as country," "fundamentally a contended weak that and Peking's real backward power is too often exaggerated. In coming decades,...
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