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CCP - The Chinese Communist Party, China's ruling party.
Blueprint - Design plans or drawing.
Soviet Union - Officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). A powerful group of communist republics, the biggest being Russia, that existed from 1922 to 1991.
Joseph Stalin - Dictator of the Soviet Union. Stalin has been accused of numerous human rights abuses, including sentencing around a million political opponents to death and prison.
Free market - When the government does not interfere with the economy, and the laws of supply and demand dictate trading.
Innovation - The process of coming up with new ideas or ways of doing things.
AI - A computer programme that has been designed to think.
Tariff - A form of tax on imports.
Mercurial - Often and suddenly changing mood.