Comment by vrganj

I am opposed to their political tilt altogether (I'm a socialist and there's literally a Lenin diss of the Economist!), and I disagree with their conclusions. That doesn't make the reporting itself useless, and they are the only ones going past a cliche caricature of China, even if they dress it in classic capitalist delusion.

There is no such thing as an unpoliticized publication, but one can still read, taking into account their biases. The point is to extract the information while discarding the ideological interpretation. In fact, this exercise is often easier when the ideological tilt is as obvious as the capitalist liberals from the Economist.

Forget about their predictions or their moralizing, but they have actual Chinese reporters talking to actual Chinese people on the ground instead of doing the usual Western thing of white MBAs treating China like some alien civilizational threat.