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e, but today such a view would be laughed at. The market economy has made Chinese and Indian workers today far more productive than they were under Mao Zedong or Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first prime minister. Societies now accept the simple fact that workers need material incentives to be productive, whi
he Chinese story is reflected in the West's schizophrenic response to it. The Nixon administration eagerly sought better relations with China under Mao, and when Deng Xiaoping doubled down by opening up the country, the West applauded the change. The United States generously accepted Chinese produc
belligerent side in some of its dealings with Japan and some members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations over territorial disputes in the East China and South China Seas. The possibility of an aggressive, militaristic China cannot be ruled out. But we have come a vast distance since the days whe
e, but today such a view would be laughed at. The market economy has made Chinese and Indian workers today far more productive than they were under Mao Zedong or Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first prime minister. Societies now accept the simple fact that workers need material incentives to be productive, whi
he Chinese story is reflected in the West's schizophrenic response to it. The Nixon administration eagerly sought better relations with China under Mao, and when Deng Xiaoping doubled down by opening up the country, the West applauded the change. The United States generously accepted Chinese produc
e in some of its dealings with Japan and some members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations over EFTA00703797 territorial disputes in the East China and South China Seas. The possibility of an aggressive, militaristic China cannot be ruled out. But we have come a vast distance since the days whe
e, focus on the constitutional amendment ending term limits, assuming President XiJinping will now serve in a for-life dictator- ship, reminiscent of Mao's China, the Soviet Union, the Kim family in North Korea and some African countries. It is no challenge to explain why abolishing term limits is bad
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023683 →ernization and reform, especially its burgeoning blue-water navy with multiple aircraft carriers? August: China hosted the BRICS Sum- mit in Xiamen, East China’s Fujian prov- ince. The five BRICS countries — Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa — have increasing influence on global econo- my and polit
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023684 →nd comprehensive and strict Party governance. The term “thought” in Chinese has special meaning because before this it had been associated only with Mao Zedong — “Mao Zedong Thought”. “Socialism” is a set of political ideas with a complex history, unified by public or com- mon ownership of the means of prod
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023685 →Entities connected to both Mao Zedong and East China

Marc Rich
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Bill Clinton
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Deng Xiaoping
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Kofi Annan
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John F. Kennedy
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Cynthia Nixon
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Lawrence Krauss
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Lesley Groff
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Robert Gates
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Middle East
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United Kingdom
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Larry Summers
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Morocco
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United Arab Emirates
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Ethiopia
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Malaysia
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Renaissance
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New Delhi
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Steven Pinker
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