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China's Gold Rush Migrants

The LRB Podcast

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The Pendulum Swinging the Other Way

The centre of economic power is now shifting back, or shifting towards china and india. It seems that it isn't chinese workers who are now going to work in mines in australia and in south africa. I think we probably retend to forget just how sort of, singularly powerful the british empire was in the nineteenth into the twentieth century. And then after wall were to the united states as well. Id think what we're saying now, you know, who knows? i'm not smart enough to predict the future,. but certainly were not goig to see ch China as the only power around the world.

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