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Just how big is China?

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What is surprising, though, is just how big the China market is compared to the other industrialized countries of the world.

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This shows how big the opportunity is in China.

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But look at how big the mobile phone market is in China.

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One of the big unknowns in China is how Chinese born after economic reforms began in 1978 will respond to government authority as they move into the workforce.

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In China, by contrast, the big question is how a party that presided over such catastrophic blunders and crimes, in particular the famine of 1958-61, has managed to remain in office.

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