As I have written in other pieces, China has made a great progress in introducing market reforms to its central planning system that have contributed to its robust growth.

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While Indonesia has made great progress in consolidating a stable, democratic government after five decades of authoritarian rule, it nonetheless has significant difficulty with national religious tolerance.

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However, Russia has also made a great deal of under-appreciated progress in addressing these problems to that point that its natural population change is noticeably better than the largest member of the European Union.

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But he has a great deal of confidence in the progress the negotiations being led by the Vice President has made.

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