China's experiment of the century

As export-hungry Europeans have feted president Xi Jinping on his imperial progress across the continent over the last week, how many have realised just how extraordinary is the political experiment he is leading back home? In essence, he is trying to turn China into an advanced economy and three-dimensional superpower, drawing on the energies of capitalism, patriotism and Chinese traditions, yet all still under the control of what remains, at its core, a Leninist party-state.

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