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Control the past: rewriting Chinese history
Control the past: rewriting Chinese history
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Length:
20 minutes
Released:
Nov 8, 2021
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Podcast episode
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Over four days in Beijing, the political and military elite are meeting to recast the past. The revised version will depict Xi Jinping as a giant of the stature of Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping—and justify his continued rule. More Africans are migrating, mostly within their own continent. And Hollywood is examining its navel. It doesn’t like what it finds.
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Released:
Nov 8, 2021
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Podcast episode
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