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Article: China's military ambitions.(Asia)
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- Quadrant
- Article date:
- October 1, 2005
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THE ENERGY RELEASED in China, little more than a decade ago, by Deng Xiaoping's "socialism with Chinese characteristics", has exploded with the velocity, force and unpredictability of a galactic accident. There are still backward, poor Chinese provinces, and the progress is chaotic. The Chinese government and Communist Party are finding the prodigy difficult to direct or control. The economic tiger is becoming too big and sharp-clawed for its masters to whip into submission. The workers, too, are restive, often violently so. And, with the collapse of Maoism, for almost the first time in China's long history the powers-that-be cannot call on a shared ideology or belief ...