thank you. mao s successor, deng xiaoping had a toottlely opposite approach. millions have died bar lack of food. his main goal was to make his poverty stricken country rich. so he opened their borders to trade and sought peaceful coexistence with the west. deng xiaoping came up with a theory that he called hide your strength and bide your time. just st steadily invest in the chinese economy and just ease your way into the international system. the first peacekeeping engineering unit. china funned the u.n. and provided humanitarian aid, a remarkable turnaround from the days of mao. the chinese communist party is about to announce a new leader. but when xi jinping took power in 2012
the architect of china s opening, deng xiaoping, spoke of the need for china to hide its strength and bide its time. but that was not simply a counsel to wait a few decades. deng understood that china was so large, bordering so many countries with so many border disputes, that it needed to reassure the world. winston churchill once said that russia was a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. china is a cornucopia, a vast teeming land full of contradictions. say anything about china, and you can find it in there and its opposite. will xi be able to control the sprawling country and force it along the lines he wishes? so far, he has succeeded at home. but in doing so, he s making life for that average chinese couple less open and one in
isolated country with a revolutionary regime whose red china cause had lost any global relevance. this chinese couple s parents were among the poorest people in the world with the fewest options. then came dong xiaoping, and his policies that opened china up to the market and the world. they have resulted not just in sustained piece and stability but what the economist jeffrey sachs has called the most successful development story in world history. for four decades, china s economy grew at almost 10 percent a year, and gdp per capita has jumped more than 25-fold. with this economic progress has come the creation of a new chinese society, much more open, more ambitious, and confident of its place in the world. it s only natural that people in china have a great measure of
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even bizarre performances for alibaba employees. jack ma became china s first celebrity ceo. he s not only famous inside china. i guess you have heard of jack. he was embraced by the world s most powerful leaders. jack ma seemed more popular and admired than xi jinping. young people across the country would have photos up of jack ma above their beds in ways that historically you would have seen for mao. to understand how there could be a cult of ma in xi jinping s china, you need to know one thing. in the beginning, xi jinping very much needed jack ma. china had missed the industrial revolution in the 19th century, and america had invented the internet by the end of the 20th century. china was not even connected to the internet yet. we started. two decades after deng