“Anybody who is interested in China, who’s developing things in China, who’s doing business with China needs to be thinking about the instinct towards politics over pragmatism”, argues New Yorker staff writer (and former Beijing resident) Evan Osnos. “It will affect your operations there. It’s not the kind of thing where you can be, ‘Well, look, we’re not interested in politics.’” Osnos, who also wrote the award-winning book The Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China, shares experiences and views on the tension between one of the oldest civilizations in the world and newer story of nation-building (is it, like the buildings being built, structurally sound?); an evolving demographic (where “kids you have no idea how good you have it” may no longer be a hedge against politics); and middle-class Chinese, not just outside or elite, complaints about pollution (especially since “environmentalism has often been the front edge of a deeper change in political consciousness”). And speaking…