312 | Christopher Marquis: How China's Communist Roots Shape Its Economy, State Party, and Xi Jinping's Ambitions
The Realignment
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What Keeps You Jumping Up at Night?
Mao's policies suggest that actually ideology is much more important than economics. And we saw under Mao that that, you know, sort of leads to disaster. There's clearly with COVID, there's been huge economic decline. You know, much of these private businesses, they've taken a much the CCP's taken a much more active role in them.
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