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The Hundred-Year Marathon: China's Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower is a 2015 book by Michael Pillsbury. In the book, the author discusses China's strategy to surpass the United States as a leading global power by 2049.
The century of humiliation was a period in Chinese history beginning with the First Opium War (1839–1842), and ending in 1945 with China (then the Republic of China) emerging out of the Second World War as one of the Big Four and established as a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council, or alternately, ending in 1949 with the ...
Flag of the People's Republic of China Flag of the Chinese Communist Party. The Two Centenaries (Chinese: 两个一百年) is a political slogan that refers to two 100-year anniversaries and a stated set of economic and political goals advanced by General Secretary Xi Jinping following the 18th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) held in 2012.
Major investments in larger state enterprises were made: 1587, 1361 and 1815 medium and large-scale state projects were started in 1958, 1959 and 1960 respectively, more in each year than in the first Five Year Plan. [45] Millions of Chinese became state workers as a consequence of this industrial investment: in 1958, 21 million were added to ...
The Three-Year Plan introduced a class of technocrats to run the state-owned projects. [clarification needed] The Chinese military was an important customer for German arms manufacturers and heavy industry. Chinese exports to Germany, including deliveries of tin and tungsten, were also seen as vital. [18]
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First came the U.K.’s Brexit from the European Union. Now, there’s a potential German “Dexit” that the country’s increasingly popular right-wing Alternative for Germany party is pushing for.
During the twenty-one-year inter-war period between the First (1914–18) and the Second (1939–45) World War, Lebensraum for Germany was the principal tenet of the extremist nationalism that characterised German party politics.