While China will not change its ancient and admirable civilization, it owes its re-emergence to its embrace of the contemporary Western model of modernization – the huge achievement of Deng Xiaoping, who put the country on its current path more than three decades ago. But the decisive question of political modernization remains unanswered.
那么中国会选择哪条道路？中国一方面没有抛弃其令人敬仰的古老文明，另一方面也因为采取了当代的西方现代化模式才实现了重新崛起——这是邓小平的伟大功绩，正是他在30多年前让中国走上了这条道路。但有关政治现代化的决定性问题依然未能得到解答。