He was shocked and surprised to see how much the rest of the world had progressed and how backward China had remained. Deng realised that the communist system wasn't working. And thus the path to ...

Over the past decade, income and wealth generation in India have increasingly concentrated in the hands of a few ...

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That said, it’s also worth considering that the Cultural Revolution, as horrible as it was, acted as a brushfire clearing the way for the bold reforms of the Deng Xiaoping era. It’s hard to get people ...

Once China started to reform at the end of the 1970s, the ex-Soviet bloc a decade later, and a semi-closed India just after ...

Russia has supported secessionist regimes and meddled in the affairs of Syria and African countries, China has militarized ...

Siviwe Gwarube is focusing on long-term education excellence through a strategic reorientation of the system towards the ...

China has changed under Xi Jinping, with implications for the entire world. But few outsiders understand much about Xi’s ...