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Nicholas Kristof

By Nicholas Kristof

Opinion Columnist, reporting from Taiwan and Vietnam

When I began to cover Taiwan in the 1980s for The New York Times, it was a dictatorship under martial law, banning opposition parties and imprisoning dissidents. Per capita income was just $4,000, and the government once tried to bribe me to provide more friendly coverage.

Now the world has turned upside down. Taiwan today is more democratic than the United States, according to the democracy index published by the........

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