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Beijing's Overreach

The Asia Chessboard

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The Normalcy of the Chinese Political System

Under Mao Zedong or more recently Xi Jinping, you can see how the system can be steered off a cliff. Nobody believed that it was ever going to turn back to centralized rule,. But with market reforms in the economy, the growth of the middle class, people traveling abroad became more cosmopolitan and better educated. And which is of course what had happened to the Soviet Union but Xi Jinping saw that.

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