china politics

Scrapping Term Limits Fits the ‘Dictator Forever’ Model

Thought about posting this in Religion but I decided it belongs here instead. China’s Tensions With Dalai Lama Spill Into the Afterlife :D The Dalai Lama is a heretic to his own religion and the Central Party gets to decide who he reincarnates as. :D Does he actually believe in...

It will be interesting to see how this develops. Seems to be about how Beijing hand-picks candidates which the people may then vote for. Of course, that's not any kind of real democracy. Not much better than "democracy" in Iran, where the eligible candidates are pre-approved by some body of...

Iceland premier to meet Chinese leaders in Beijing A first such treaty between an European country and China. And I wish EU could move on with similar. "The prime minister of Iceland, Johanna Sigurdardottir, and her wife, Jonina Leosdottir, will be on an official visit to China on April...

Billions in Hidden Riches for Family of Chinese Leader Will this sort of thing hurt the legitimacy of the Communist Party in the eyes of the Chinese people? While some degree of corruption may be tolerable when the economy is growing at 9% per annum, and presumably most people's standards of...

There's been quite a bit of (largely unreported) intrigue and political shenanigans in China over the past two months. First, the Vice-Mayor of Chongqing, Wang Lijun, sought sanctuary in the U.S. Consulate on Feb. 24. He stayed there overnight, before finally leaving the embassy of his own...

Interesting China story. China's leaders are about to meet to reshuffle the leadership. Recently Wen Jiabao made a speech advocating political reform, but the Central Propaganda Department seems to be censoring it. A speech by the premier of China being censored by others in the party central...

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/24/world/africa/24safrica.html What's the lesson here? Money talks and human rights walks. The genocide and occupation of Tibet is one of the worst human rights tragedies of the 20th century. But unlike the Palestinians, no one cares about the innocent and...

I've long believed that capitalism and representative democracy are where the world is ultimately headed. Communism is pretty much dead, and countries have flocked to the democracy/capitalism model over the last twenty years. But there is a significant and disturbing exception to this trend...

I was thinking today that, for all the news that we see about China in the international media, it covers only a tiny portion of what actually happens here, and generally does it from an outsider's perspective. I thought it would be interesting to at least some forum members if I supplied...

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http://abcnews.go.com/wire/US/reuters20030515_73.html Define "intentionally." Do you get the feeling this might be used as an excuse to kill anyone with SARS to try to prevent its spread? It's certainly quicker and cheaper than trying to cure it.