Outsiders, and quite a few Chinese too, thought that the readiness of China's rulers to embrace capitalism and market economics would in time be the undoing of the system to which they paid lip service but manifestly not much else.

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This law took a long time to be put into place, and undoing it would jeopardize the marine ecosystem.

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Nevertheless, he finds time to flit off overseas to wave the flag a bit and start undoing the damage done by his cretinous predecessor, and the best you can do by way of considered commentary on the trip is Newt Gingrich.

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