A game of Chinese checkers

Rarely in history has a country moved from rags to riches and from relative isolation to a power either feared or respected, as rapidly as China. The process began after Deng Xiao Ping assumed the reins of power. Bent on overturning a Communist system which had perpetuated poverty, and all but throwing the slogans of Marx, Lenin and Mao into the wastepaper basket, Deng proclaimed: “Poverty is not socialism. To be rich is glorious”.

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