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D. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt died in office in 1945 after winning popular election four times. The United States later adopted a constitutional amendment to limit presidents to two terms. Their nations’ ruling Communist parties elected Fidel Castro in Cuba and Nicolae Ceausescu in Romania many times before the leaders’ deaths.
C. Mao Zedong defeated nationalist leader Chiang Kai-Shek in 1949, established China’s Communist government and ruled the nation with an iron fist until his death in 1976. He was succeeded by Deng Xiaoping who instituted sweeping economic reforms and established the nation’s limit of two, five-year presidential terms that Xi is now ending.
A. According to the CIA World Factbook, China surpassed the United States in 2016 to become the world’s largest economy with largest gross domestic product, followed by the European Union and then the United States. China now has more billionaires than any other country – many of them in the legislature voting this week on abolishing the presidential term limit.
D. The United States is about 3.79 million square miles compared with about 3.70 million square miles for China, according to the CIA World Factbook. China has 1.379 billion people, more than a billion more people than the 326 million population of the United States.