“Free market” Beijing: an on-the-spot report – WSWS

The World Socialist Web Site is publishing this on-the-spot report it received from a correspondent in Beijing:

Beijing provides one with a glimpse of the economic, social and political tensions building up in China. Everywhere throughout this massive city I can see glaring contrasts between rich and poor, old and new, modern technology and primitive conditions. In the midst of towering office complexes, elite hotels, glitzy shopping malls and teeming traffic, there are beggars, street peddlers, scrap collectors and weary construction workers.

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