Received wisdom says it should not be like this. France, with its strikes, crazy labour laws and taxes, is as rich per capita ...

So, did 7 million landlords die during the Great Leap Forward? No, those were mainly peasants and others who were starved or executed. In the end, efforts at collectivization are always forced ...

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Fishman dubbed as, “China, Inc.” China has been fulfilling Mao’s 1949 proclamation for his regime to, “catch up to Great ...

Katsuji Nakazawa is a Tokyo-based senior staff and editorial writer at Nikkei. He spent seven years in China as a correspondent and later as China bureau chief. He was the 2014 recipient of the ...

To be sure, not all Politburo members agreed on the best methods to use to accomplish these great tasks, but overall confidence was high and the degree of underlying unity clearly sufficient to enable ...

There were great games, brilliant goals and beautiful ... made the step up to Serie A superstar on a regular basis. His leap for headers was a joy to behold for a guy who was not the tallest ...

We need a Great Leap Forward. Not like the Chinese one, obviously. But a wholesale rejection of the systems and policies which have got us into this mess. We can no longer trust those loyal to ...

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