Easy as A, B, Xi: China gives economic lessons to North Korea
Chinese President Xi Jinping has coached his North Korean counterpart Kim Jong Un on high-stakes diplomacy. Now he seems poised to give the young autocrat another lesson: how to reform a state-controlled economy while keeping an iron grip on power. Beijing has long pushed for Pyongyang to adopt similar measures to those that fuelled China's dizzying ascent from a communist backwater to one of the world's largest trading powers. But while the highly secretive, nuclear-armed North has been quietly carrying out economic reforms for some time, ...
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