The history man
9 April 2009
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In Mao s day, the Venezuelan president could have shared his revolutionary talk with comrades from Albania and North Korea. Now, Beijing s power politics is nonideological. China still likes dealing with widely shunned leaders, but only because it sees the potential for profits.
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