> the only serious Western reporting about China.
as good as Gordon Chang.
as good as Gordon Chang.
The problem here is quite often brainwashed people never realize that they have been brainwashed. Sometimes they trust, promote or even defend the perpetrators. You have my deep sympathy on this matter.
There is no such thing as an unpoliticized publication, but one can still read, taking into account their biases. The point is to extract the information while discarding the ideological interpretation. In fact, this exercise is often easier when the ideological tilt is as obvious as the capitalist liberals from the Economist.
Forget about their predictions or their moralizing, but they have actual Chinese reporters talking to actual Chinese people on the ground instead of doing the usual Western thing of white MBAs treating China like some alien civilizational threat.