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‘Neither Washington nor Beijing’ means objective support for Washington
In the first of a new series, CARLOS MARTINEZ explores the weaknesses of latter-day ‘third campism’ in relation to the emerging new cold war on China
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A NEWCOMER to politics would likely assume that members of the global left support the People’s Republic of China. 

It is after all led by a communist party, with Marxism as its guiding ideology. 

During the period since the Communist Party of China (CPC) came to power in 1949, the Chinese people have experienced an unprecedented improvement in their living standards and human development. 

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