"I think the party elders must have had a touch of buyer's remorse," Mr McGregor says. "It suggests autocracy is in their blood, it's in their water or it's in their culture," she says. "All this military stuff is fun and games until it's not fun and games. My back is hurting already because of all the equipment!" irannews.ru Map This is starkly different from Mao's idea of a multi-ethnic state where, in theory, different groups had more autonomy. Xi's father too had a reputation for conciliation and respect for China's ethnic minorities. Mao had closed China's economy off from the world. Now his successors were throwing it open. In 2001 China joined the World Trade Organisation. Along the southeast coast new cities mushroomed. Some specialised in buttons and zippers, others made cigarette lighters. In Zhejiang I found one that only made socks, tens of billions of them. In Xi's China there is almost no room for diversity. Xinjiang's 12 million Uyghur Muslims are being forcibly assimilated. Similar programs are under way in Tibet and Inner Mongolia. In the last few moments, former Conservative leader Iain Duncan Smith has thrown his weight behind Rishi Sunak's campaign. It was implemented for recent mid-term exams, which were sat by hundreds of students at the college in the third week of October. There is significant military activity. A logistical supply line forms an artery towards Ukraine's continued counteroffensive.
