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The Best and Worst of Everything, 2008

An unremittingly bleak year?

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It used to be a platitude of Western—and Marxist—analysis of China that wrenching economic change would demand political reform. Yet China’s economy boomed with little sign of any serious political liberalisation to match the economic free-for-all. The cliché fell into disuse. Indeed, many, even in democratic bastions such as India, began to fall for the Chinese Communist Party’s argument that dictatorship was good for growth, whereas Indian democracy was a luxury paid for by the poor, in the indefinite extension of their poverty.

But as China enters a trying year of anniversaries—

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platitude Show phonetics

noun [C] DISAPPROVING

a remark or statement that may be true but is boring and meaningless because it has been said so many times before:

Milosevic doesn't mouth platitudes about it not mattering who scores as long as the team wins.

platitudinous 

adjective FORMAL DISAPPROVING

fall for sth (BE TRICKED) phrasal verb INFORMAL

to be tricked into believing something that is not true:

He told me he owned a mansion in Spain and I fell for it.

unremitting Hide phonetics
adjective FORMAL
never stopping, weakening in effort or failing:
Our thanks are due to Bob Lawrence whose unremitting labours have ensured the success of the whole scheme.
~ modern scene
unremittingly Hide phonetics
adverb

un・remitting

━━ a. 絶間ない; 根気強い.
un・remitting・ly　━━ ad.
un・remitting・ness　━━ n.