"China is what it is," says the U.K.'s chancellor of the Exchequer -- no longer any need to pretend to fret over Chinese domestic repression
British Chancellor George Osborne, the country's second-ranking official, says officially, "China is what it is." It's business, you see. Just business.by KenIn a new NYRB blogpost, "Who's Afraid of Chinese Money?," journalist Jonathan Mirsky -- one of our most valuable chroniclers of matters Chinese -- flashes back 20-plus years:
