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This is CBS, I On the World. I'm John Batchel with Gordon Chang at Gordon G Ji Chang, my colleague and co-host, and we're

very pleased to welcome the author Anne Stevenson Yang, her new book, Wild Ride China's

short-lived experiment in capitalism. The events of these last days require us to attend immediately

to the response from Beijing and from the Chinese Communist Party

and the leadership. However, this is also part of the response of a nation that is considerably

weaker than it once upon a time was because of the performance of the economy. And a very good evening to you.

The retreat, as I understand it,

from photographs I have from the 1960s,

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