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Feeling Right at Home

s a young journalist from Barbados, thousands of miles across the world, the opportunity to visit China was one I simply could not pass up. It’s a big country with a massive population and has such a significant influence on world affairs, and yet I felt like I knew so little about it. Of course, we read articles and watch news items every now and again about the political affairs

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