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    A Nation-First Narrative

    Apr 23, 2022 4 minutes
    By Ram Madhav

    The author is Member, National Executive, RSS, and Member, Board of Governors, India Foundation

    In the 1980s, Deng Xiaoping, the then supreme leader of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), decided to focus exclusively on economic development. He realised that for the China dream to come true, the economy, shattered by Mao’s decades of defective policies, must be reinvigorated.

    The decade saw rapid economic growth and infrastructure development in the country. Foreign investors and technologies were invited into China. When his own colleagues in the party protested, accusing him of promoting capitalist policies, Deng shut them off with the retort that he didn’t care

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