Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Chinese Leader Xi Jinping and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid meet in Washington. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)
But the reverse is also true: Washington sometimes has a habit of misunderstanding China’s internal machinations by assuming, just as China so often does with the U.S., that their system is more like our own than it really is. Klein’s post, which mostly focuses on Washington, also repeats a few of its common misapprehensions about China. This only further proves Klein’s point, of course, but it’s a reminder that the reverse can also be true.
