Her statement, with its allusion to the Cold War-era Iron Curtain, amounted to an implicit admission that the central assumption guiding US policy on China since the 1990’s – that assisting China’s economic rise would usher in greater political openness there – has gone awry.
La déclaration de Mme Clinton, et son allusion au rideau de fer de l’époque de la guerre froide, revient à admettre implicitement que cette logique a mal tourné.