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Castro's Death a Reminder in China of Changed Communist Axis

What Fidel Castro's Death Means for Cuba and the West

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Beijing (AP) -- In the shadow of east Beijing's soaring glass skyscrapers, elderly retirees still speak nostalgically about their Cuban brothers-in-arm, faraway comrades bound by communist solidarity.

But in central Beijing's halls of power, Cuba is perhaps seen these days as something less romantic: a market for China's booming private-sector exports.