"In 2012, there were 99m impoverished people in China. Beijing spent some 1.5tn renminbi lifting them up and sent 2.9m officials to the poorest villages

“Power without revenue is a bubble.” Alexander Hamilton. https://t.co/cniY4rc34C

RT @DFesterling: @adam_tooze quite a number of the russian officers were from baltic areas, speaking german; other officers hired guns from…