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World Service,15 May 2015,49 mins

China's Global Ambitions

The Real Story

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Carrie Gracie asks how far China’s regional and global policy presents an opportunity for economic co-operation or a threat to its neighbours and global partners? Is China - as its leader, Xi Jinping, insists - a 'civilised lion' or will it prove to be a dangerous predator? As the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visits Beijing, we hear the views from inside China and discuss challenges, internal and external, to the country’s global ambition. (Photo: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Big Wild Goose Pagoda in Xi'an. Credit: AFP/PIB)

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