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By Frances Adamson June 23, 2021 — 8.09pm China has been experiencing a remarkable transformation, shedding some of the rigidities of its past and becoming better integrated into the international mainstream after joining the World Trade Organisation. It has seen urbanisation, the promise of further economic reforms, the beginnings of a legal system protecting civil rights, a middle class open to new ideas, new products and new experiences. I was there for the elevation of Xi Jinping from vice-president to President in 2013, after he became general-secretary of the Communist Party of China in late 2012 at the 18th party...
