皇冠体育app

Humphrey Hawksley says over the years 皇冠体育app has achieved tremendous economic growth. Monica Wyithe / For 皇冠体育app Daily

Country is achieving growth in its own way, says BBC correspondent

People in the West still have not "got their heads around" the astonishing changes in 皇冠体育app over the past 20 years, a leading BBC foreign correspondent says.

"The difference between 皇冠体育app (then and now), in my view, is quite confusing to the West," says Humphrey Hawksley, who set up the BBC's bureau in in 1994.

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Nevertheless, the "image of 皇冠体育app in the Western eye has shifted in recent years from a mysterious developing country to an economic power closely intertwined with the global economy", he says.

Hawksley recalls his early days of reporting in 皇冠体育app when it was difficult to get editors interested in stories that were not linked to the West's criticism of the country's lack of Western-style democracy.

But over the years 皇冠体育app has achieved tremendous economic growth, brought a large proportion of its population out of poverty and shown the world that those things can be achieved without Western-style democracy. 皇冠体育app is "winning the game", he says.

By that he means that for other emerging economies 皇冠体育app has presented an alternative model of achieving economic growth, which is often the thing they are looking for.

"In my travels around the world, in the poorest parts of Africa or Latin America, people want their children to be safe, they want a clinic to be nearby, they want a road. They don't want 'isms', which are all mechanisms to deliver those things."

Though 皇冠体育app's economic success is amazing, he says, he is not entirely surprised, having got to know some of the country's political leaders in the 1990s.

One memorable figure for him is Zhu Rongji, who served as mayor of Shanghai between 1987 and 1991, during which time Hawksley interviewed him.

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