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China Leveraged the West to Grow Its Economy and Its Comprehensive National Power

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China, once the dominant power in Asia and the wealthiest society on earth, fell rapidly from that perch to suffer partial dismemberment and what its leaders refer to as the “century of humiliation,” lasting from the end of the first Opium War in 1843–1949 when the Communist Party united China under one government.

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Mulloy, P.A. (2014). China Leveraged the West to Grow Its Economy and Its Comprehensive National Power. In: Anderson, D. (eds) Leveraging. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06094-1_4

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