China’s Single Layer

Anne-Marie Slaughter, one of the most thoughtful observers of international affairs, did an unusual thing over the last academic year: She dived into Chinaand lived in Shanghai while traveling around the country. Anne-Marie, who isalso the dean of the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton, guest-bloggedhere last fall about her experiences. Now Anne-Marie has left China andreturned to the U.S., and with the Olympics opening I asked her for her finalobservations on China. Here’s what she had to say: