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‘The inscrutable paradox of China today is a country which somehow manages to simultaneously juggle a communist political system with a free market economy without so much as dropping a ball’
When the Shanghai stockmarket shakes, world economies wobble. As China prepares to host the Olympic Games in 2008, Karen Halabi goes to Shanghai to investigate the changes that have taken place in a country that remains as inscrutable as ever, as it emerges as the world’s foremost economic superpower.
When the rest of the world peers into China from its lounge rooms next year ………
©Karen Halabi 2007 words and images.
Story runs to 2,400 words as an in-depth feature and socio-economic analysis of China today as it prepares for the Games. Pics available.
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