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How has China become the economic superpower that it is today? The decades since the death of Chairman Mao Zedong have seen an unprecedented economic transformation, but how has this been achieved? And how credible is the idea that China\u2019s long-term, strategic vision is the key to the nation\u2019s future? Dan is joined by historian Frank Dik\xf6tter, a specialist in modern China and author of China After Mao: The Rise of a Superpower, to find out how China has changed, and where it might be going.

Produced by James Hickmann and edited by Dougal Patmore.

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