Fanatics and Pragmatists

Fanatics and Pragmatists G P D The Chinese have been on a modesty trip for a long time. Their standard refrain has been that they want to learn from others. Now Yeltsin seems to have adopted that line. He was so impressed, during his recent trip to China, with the Chinese economic experiment, especially the prosperity of Shanghai, that he has declared that he wants to "study Shanghai's experience in more detail".