312 | Christopher Marquis: How China's Communist Roots Shape Its Economy, State Party, and Xi Jinping's Ambitions
The Realignment
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Maoism, Reform and Opening Up - Is Deng the Aberration?
Deng should be thought of as the aberration. There's actually a much clearer through line to Xi Jinping's approach to the world and his thought than there would be from Deng. He really very insightfully saw just by having markets does not necessarily undermine our communist identity. In the West, we sort of, I think, see that as, oh, markets are coming in,. That's actually very connected to the political transition as well.
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