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How the CCP Finances its Global Ambitions

Pekingology

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The Importance of Crisis in Setting Up China's Sovereign Wealth Funds

Sovereign wealth funds earn high returns. Are these productive investors or do they all play it relatively safe? Many of them could book at least a 10% return on your basis. So let's get into the Chinese specific context. Could you describe some of those external events that motivated Beijing to start thinking about how it could use some of the surplus savings to strategic advantage?

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