"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.
