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    China puts GDP target on history's ash pit

    May 27, 2020 2 minutes

    In a speech just a few years ago, China’s leader Xi Jinping said economic growth was the “central task” of the ruling Communist Party. Because “matter determines consciousness,” he claimed, the party’s primary task is material progress. “We should oppose metaphysical ways of thinking,” he added.

    Last Friday, the party

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