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Control the past: rewriting Chinese history

The Intelligence from The Economist
The Intelligence from The Economist
Episode • Nov 8, 2021 • 20m
Over four days in Beijing, the political and military elite are meeting to recast the past. The revised version will depict Xi Jinping as a giant of the stature of Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping—and justify his continued rule. More Africans are migrating, mostly within their own continent. And Hollywood is examining its navel. It doesn’t like what it finds.

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