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Berlin, birthplace of modern Asia

Source: The Daily Star
Beijing : China | about 1 month ago  
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But no continent benefited more than Asia, whose dramatic economic rise since 1989 has occurred at a speed and scale without parallel in world history. For Asia, the most important consequence of the fall of the Berlin Wall was that the collapse of communism produced a shift from the primacy of military...
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