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BEIJING, July 9 (Xinhua) -- Turning China into a Western-style democracy "wasn't the objective, and if it had been, it would have been a totally impossible objective," said Chas W. Freeman, Jr., former U.S. assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs on Friday. Freeman made the remarks when attending an event in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of Dr. Kissinger's secret trip to China via video link. In December 1978 when China finally decided to open itself up and take a different direction, it did so on its own, not because of the United States, Freeman said. "In the...
