[so competitive he'd make up an entire fake history and rulebook for chess, yes, that's Charles for you.... and man the lifeboats, the world is clearly ending if Cain actually agrees with him on something!]

It means renovation, actually. It was a term used specifically to reference the start of economic reforms in Vietnam after the war. [he sighs and tips his king to its side in an idle gesture before setting it upright again.] But the thought behind it is obviously the same as any other movement of its kind. Renovation and progress are just pretty ways of saying they're intent on uprooting everything that has come before because it doesn't fit into whatever they're currently trying to create.