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Mao Zedong’s China has liberalized and integrated itself into the global economy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 11, 2026

Since 2016, the agency has liberalized its regulations to permit patients to consult a doctor through telemedicine and to obtain the pills without traveling to a clinic.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 2024

The Catholic island nation has liberalized some laws in recent years, legalizing divorce 10 years ago and same-sex marriage in 2017.

From Seattle Times • May 27, 2021

President Raul Castro, 81, has liberalized regulations for small businesses and farming, and begun leasing small state retail outlets to employees since taking over for his ailing older brother Fidel in 2008.

From Reuters • Jul. 27, 2012

The new government has instituted moderate   land reforms, with more than one-half of cropland now in private hands, and   it has liberalized private agricultural output.

From The 1993 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency