Brief: Concerning China’s Inequality

Xi Jinping continues to fire up the masses without alienating the elites too much.

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Background: China’s population has not shared in the country’s past three decades of breakneck economic growth. The rising tide may have lifted nearly all boats to an unprecedented degree; per capita GDP has risen 1,000 percent since 2000, and even this doesn’t reflect the true increases in the standard of living. But deep regional and […]

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