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Who is China learning from now?

Here’s a little ditty making the rounds about China’s evolution over the decades: Mao Zedong and the first-generation leaders decided to learn from the Soviet Union – and the Soviet Union collapsed. Deng Xiaoping and the second-generation leaders d... ...full story at Tim Johnson

from Tim Johnson on Wed, Apr 01 2009

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