When Susan Shirk first visited China in 1971, GDP per person was $118 – roughly what my family spent on a takeout dinner last night.
China’s rise since then has been breathtaking. Its economy is now the world’s second largest and it has accumulated $3 trillion of foreign currency. Along the way hundreds of millions of people have been raised out of poverty.
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