China should break free from Western “discourse traps” over issues such as state subsidies, democracy and the global order to challenge “double standards” about its rise, a former official policy adviser has urged. Ding Yifan, a former deputy director of the Institute of World Development, a government think tank, also said many Chinese scholars were reluctant to argue that the Communist Party had played a key role in China’s “remarkable” development because of criticisms it was autocratic. But…
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