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How China Escaped Shock Therapy w/ Isabella Weber

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China's World History

The richest countries are highly diversified. Poor countries only produce a small number of fairly simple commodities, such as coffee beans. As a result, the poor countries are really a supplie economy to the cor countries in the global economy. Unmy china has been the workshop of the world. It has been exporting cheap labor and all of that. However, the strategy behind that an without having some sort of conspiracy theory of the long arm of the communist party is reaching from bagingam across the world. But the idea was always to attract foreign investment in order to enable an upgrading of china's own industries.

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