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4: Build a superpower

How to become a dictator

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Introduction

Beijing is feeling increasingly tense ahead of China's 20th party congress. Asian heritage female journalists like myself are treated the worst because we're considered traitors and you know, we're women. My biggest fear is that the government will ban me from leaving the country or detain me for years held as a diplomatic hostage by the Chinese state.

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