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October 24, 2012

China Is Still Hungry

You Sang-chul, JoongAng Daily

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Since the humiliating defeat in the Opium War in 1840, China was obsessed with three national goals - sovereignty, building a strong nation and modernization. The nation fully gained sovereignty by establishing the Republic of China in 1949 and accomplished its goal of building a mighty country by being ranked second in the world. Modernization remains incomplete.

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