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Deng Xiaoping made a calculation. He bet on demographics. What he knew was that China had this enormous population of young, underemployed people, people who he could move from the farms to the coast and put them to work in factories, and that would be the lifeblood of China's economy.

~Evan Osnos

Topics: Bet Calculation China Coast Could Demographics Economy Enormous Factories Farms Had He Knew Made Move People Population Put Them Who Work Would Young

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China no longer has an ideology that makes any sense to them, but what they do have is great pride in the Chinese nation.

~Evan Osnos

Topics: Any China Chinese Great Ideology Longer Makes Nation Pride Sense Them

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More than four decades after Nixon met Mao, the relationship between the U.S. and China has reached a pivotal moment. To date, even as China has become more powerful and present in our lives, Americans have generally found it to be an unsatisfying 'enemy.'

~Evan Osnos

Topics: After American Become Between China Date Decades Enemy Even Found Four Generally Lives Mao Met Moment More Nixon Our Our Lives Pivotal Powerful Present Reached Relationship Than

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The U.S. must differentiate between controversial assertions of power, like those in the South China Sea, and fair reflections of China's growing contribution to the world, such as the new banks.

~Evan Osnos

Topics: Banks Between China Contribution Controversial Differentiate Fair Growing Like Must New Power Reflections Sea South Those World

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In China, inaugurations are frequent affairs, though they have nothing to do with presidents. A news cycle rarely passes without some fanfare over the inaugural ride on a new subway line or the inaugural trip across an unusually large bridge.

~Evan Osnos

Topics: Across Affairs Bridge China Cycle Frequent Large Line New News Nothing Over Passes Presidents Rarely Ride Some Subway Though Trip Without

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A generation ago, American war planners made the mistake of believing that short-term Communist sympathies would unite China and Vietnam. We were wrong, and it tragically misshaped our policy in Vietnam.

~Evan Osnos

Topics: American Believing China Communist Generation Made Mistake Our Policy Short-Term Sympathies Tragically Unite Vietnam War Were Would Wrong

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As a student in Beijing in 1996, I sometimes marveled at the sheer obscurity of the movies that somehow made it onto pirated discs in China.

~Evan Osnos

Topics: Beijing China Made Movies Obscurity Onto Sheer Somehow Sometimes Student

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When Richard Nixon came to Beijing in the winter of 1972, China was still in the throes of the Cultural Revolution, so it had a limited array of entertainment to provide.

~Evan Osnos

Topics: Array Beijing Came China Cultural Entertainment Had Limited Nixon Provide Revolution Richard Richard Nixon Still Winter

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The subject of human rights in China confounds absolute pronouncements.

~Evan Osnos

Topics: Absolute China Human Human Rights Rights Subject

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When the British-Malaysian photographer Ian Teh first worked in China, more than a decade ago, he rendered it as a nation of people in Technicolor.

~Evan Osnos

Topics: China Decade First He More Nation People Photographer Rendered Than Worked

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