China imports policy ideas.
According to the BBC's Mukul Devichand, China's policy battles owe much to Western ideas:
'For mainland Chinese intellectuals, the journey to the West - and then back to Communist China - is now a well-trodden path.In fact, the main schools of intellectual thought in China have one thing in common - their leading thinkers have often spent time in Western universities.
That means that for Westerners, who may struggle with China's very different language or food, Chinese policy debates are split along strikingly familiar lines.
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