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Light on new world order rising in the East
A new pamphlet outlines the positive impact China's economic and political ascendancy could have globally — and for Britain, says JENNY CLEGG
The Shanghai skyline
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JAMES CROSSLEY applauds a lucid biography of the German radical preacher who reemerged as a hero in the GDR
Prizes all round: the Bard hands plaudits to the Miners Gala, OT&JC, Joe Solo, Black Sabbath’s frontman and the Lionesses
Star cartoonist JAMIE BRITTON is in awe of a graphic novel of epic proportions that explores class, religion and globalisation via the strange cultivation of Ginseng in the US Midwest
GUILLERMO THOMAS is intrigued by a history of the Middle East that demonstrates how promising post colonial beginnings were snuffed out by Western imperialist interests
MARIA DUARTE recommends the intricate study of a high-performance and highly dysfuntional German family
China’s New Era and What It Means
by Kenny Coyle
(CPB, £2)
JUST over a decade ago, China and Britain were roughly equal in economic size, but today, barely noticed, the Asian nation has grown four times larger. In the next seven to 10 years, it will likely overtake the US.
China's President Xi Jinping is already challenging Trump in a battle of ideas and advancing the notion of a world community with a shared future. It gives globalisation a new meaning and opposes the neocon view of divisive power politics.
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