North Korea is just like China after all

I'm not interested Even the brightest policy minds – minds animated by the best of intentions – make mistakes. The past decade has been particularly unkind to the idea of bringing change to dictatorships by engaging with them, or through their engagement with one another Perhaps the hardest change for those who idealized “engagement” – left-of-center policy wonks, libertarian opponents of wars and the national security state, academics who saw enemies of the United States as having some genuine historical grievances – has been what the past decade showed us about North Korea and China. In the early years of the Barack Obama administration, it was very easy to assume most of our problems...