China at 70: a crucial turning point

After a remarkable four decades of headlong growth China is approaching a crucial turning point.Can its leadership keep the good times rolling?

Chinese People's Liberation Army personnel in a military parade © GREG BAKER/AFP/Getty Images

Can China's leaders keep the good times rolling?
(Image credit: Chinese People's Liberation Army personnel in a military parade © GREG BAKER/AFP/Getty Images)

After a remarkable four decades of "headlong growth" China is approaching a crucial turning point", say Louis Kuijs and Gary Duncan in the South China Morning Post. The country this week marked 70 years since Mao Zedong's communists took power with a military parade in Beijing.

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