From the archive: It's later than Mao thinks | The Economist - 2 views
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Birthdays have a way of coming at the wrong time. The Chinese communists have had their moments
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But even a bigger and better bomb could not have disguised the fact that this 20th anniversary was hardly China's finest hour.
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s in power. But these have tended not to be when the crowds were filling the Square of Heavenly Peace for a major national day. Peking evidently tried to brighten this week's event by a show of nuclear black magic. There is a strong
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Now it is the great proletarian cultural revolution, which was designed to transform 700 million Chinese into militant maoists. Both failed. And both left the country in an advanced condition of disruption, with the economy only partly functioning and the authority