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Operative Words

Behind the campaign curtain

Snuffed Torch

Can the Olympic myth survive?

Lax Americana

What happens if Donald Trump returns to the White House?

Jeremy Paltiel

Jeremy Paltiel is a professor of political science at Carleton University. His most recent book is The Empire’s New Clothes: Cultural Particularism and Universal Value in China’s Quest for Global Status (Palgrave, 2007).

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Jeremy Paltiel

Spiritual Dissent

Falun Gong, the Chinese Communist Party and their apocalyptic struggle for China November 2008
Thirty years after the onset of the reform and opening policies that have made China the most rapidly rising economic power in the history of the world, Falun Gong is arguably the most visible face of dissent with the Chinese Communist Party commonly encountered outside China. Yet despite its prominence it remains poorly understood, even among well-informed members of the…