The Cold War with the democratic West that shaped global
politics for half a century. The communist/democratic divide also led to an
arms race which resulted in proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. The
fall of the Soviet Union led to the disintegration of states and the
Balkanization of various states which resulted in conflict and even genocides.
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Industrialization in the UK, and this answer will narrow the UK down to Great Britain and England was indeed different than the industrialization in China. Even without breaking down China's industrialization to the time before and after the Communist Party took over China in 1950, the two countries' industrialization process was vastly different. Here is why:
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England's industrial revolution had its roots in the later part of the 17th Century while China's began much later.
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