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October 26, 2010

China Can No Longer Plead Poverty

Gideon Rachman, Financial Times

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China's insistence that it is a poor, developing nation is beginning to wear a little thin. This, after all, is a country that is sitting on more than $2,500bn worth of foreign reserves.

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