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How China has managed to outsmart great powers on the global stage

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President William Ruto and Chinese President Xi Jinping during bilateral talks at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China. [File, Standard]

Few countries can boast of the success in world affairs that The Peoples Republic of China, or Modern China, can. It celebrated 75 years of being as a continuing ideologically-inclined political entity with embassies abroad holding ceremonies to stress its presence in those countries. It distributed books about its successes that tend to be heavy on the governance ideas of what the Chinese refer as "The Core", meaning President Xi Jinping.

Ambassadors from rival countries showed up and in Nairobi US Ambassador Meg Whitman was present. China, so argued Foreign Minister Musalia Mudavadi at the celebration, contributes to social and economic transformation and is "a reliable and strategic partner for Kenya". Mudavadi was the chief guest.

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