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IB: Authoritarian States
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Kent College History's insight:
'Third-Front" (san xian) construction was a strategic policy in the modern history of China. In the early 1960s, in the face of a complicated international situation, to preserve the nation’s strength Chairman Mao Zedong decided to relocate many heavy industries and military factories to the southwestern and northwestern hinterland areas. This extensive industrial move was historically known as the “Third-Front Construction".'
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Kent College History's insight:
China and the Cold War
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'On February 21, 1972, China's leader Mao Zedong and US President Richard Nixon met to normalize relations between their two countries. Their meeting in Beijing was brief but it set the scene for what has become the most important economic relationship in the world. CGTN's Owen Fairclough looks back on the historic encounter.'