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Understanding China
Recognising how important it is for Today’s Left to understand China, BEN CHACKO recommends a highly readable and well-researched book of essays
Chinese designed Fuxing train in Beijing - G915 from Beijing to Jilin, winding to the northeast.
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JAMIE BRITTON recommends that we all buy at least two copies of a remarkable book of poems
The East Is Still Red
by Carlos Martinez, Praxis Press, £20
CHINA looms large in today’s world. Its economy is predicted to exceed the US’s in size within the decade; by purchasing power parity, it is already larger.
It is racing ahead too in diplomacy and trade: it has now replaced the US as the country with the most diplomatic missions overseas, and is the biggest trading partner of a majority of countries globally.
This very success — China’s status as the United States’ only acknowledged “peer competitor”— could be the reason China is now routinely depicted as a menace.
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