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Communist China Turns 70

China celebrated 70 years of communist rule with a carefully choreographed display of dancers, soldiers, and killing machines. All of it, a reminder of the country's old world order, while flashing the hardware of the new. But is this massive show of military might a temporary distraction from China's more pressing problems? Natalie Poyhonen takes us back to where it all began.

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