15 Jan 2021
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The socialist market economy and global capitalism makes for strange bedfellows.
On Thursday, Xi Jinping wrote a letter to Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz.
In the missive, Xi urged the coffee behemoth to help mend tattered ties between Beijing and Washington (Bloomberg):
“I hope Starbucks wil...
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