As I see it | How Deng Xiaoping secured China’s winning hand in the tech war
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Years before Washington would target Beijing’s tech industry, the Chinese leader unleashed the country’s scientific potential.

On the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the Inner Mongolia autonomous region in 2007, a celebratory special by state media included a brief history of the late Deng Xiaoping’s observations. “In June 1987, while analysing Inner Mongolia’s economic development, Deng Xiaoping, the chief architect of China’s reform and opening-up, predicted that Inner Mongolia was likely to ‘take the lead’,” it read. Under a black and white photo, the text continued: “This was in January 1992, when he…

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