Modern China In The 21st Century

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Chinese history is a complex and multifaceted loop of interrelated political, social and economic change, ultimately leading to the current rise of Modern China in the 21st century. The present century has been characterized by the Australian Government as the “Asian Century” due to the nation’s global economic prevalence. Considering the long term trends, this can be attributed to the countries erratic political transformations; principally the economic consequences of the nation’s Imperial collapse produced by European globalization that lead to Mao Zedong’s Communist revolution as well as the economic industrialisation that opened China to the world under the rule of Deng Xiaoping.

Under dynastic authorities in the 18th and 19th century’s

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