Economics
China Needs a U.S. Lesson: Alberto Alesina and Luigi Zingales
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Tear down this Chinese wall.
In his famous 1987 speech in Berlin, U.S. President Ronald Reagan delivered the exhortation to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev: “Tear down this wall.” Contrary to everybody’s expectation, the wall started to come down only two years later.