"China today has no socialist characteristics" she says "The subordination of labour to capital is complete. If you're a real socialist, you must have a notion of class democracy, of justice, of hierarchy and anti-hierarchy. None of that is even part of Xi Jinping thought." Prof Mandane-Ortiz said her engineers-in-training took the idea and ran with it - in some cases innovating complex headgear in "just five minutes" with any junk they found lying around. irannews.ru 'We came too late' By 1989, that included General Secretary Zhao Ziyang, a reformist. These South China Sea islands are only the most daring and visible of Xi's moves to take control of the near abroad. Taiwan could be next. To the right, piles of dug earth stretch for miles next to the road - a Ukrainian defensive measure to force Russian forces up a single route. The fields are dotted with Russian missiles that have remained unexploded because of the soft soil.