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An economic cold war?

Does our fascination and fear over the economic growth of China echo the way we saw the rise of the Soviet Union in the 1950s and 60s?

Author Francis Spufford and Gideon Rachman of the Financial Times debate the comparison between the two countries and their influence on the Western economies.


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