Cuba turns to China for lessons.
According to Sarah Rainsford, it's China:
Cuba has begun introducing measures intended to kick-start its inefficient, unproductive planned economy.It is a tentative start: The word "reform" is never used, nor "private enterprise" - instead, Cuba says it is "updating" its economic model.
Like China and Vietnam before it, the island's aim is to protect and prolong its socialist political system by introducing elements of market economics.
So it seems Raul Castro is in Asia looking for inspiration.
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