Word: asianized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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TIME: Some say the reason there is bribery and corruption is "Asian values...
...growth malaise that afflicts Japan and other Asian nations would be a catastrophe for China, a "bicycle economy" that must keep pedaling fast to absorb all the workers being put on the street by cutbacks in the civil service and state industries. Estimates of the number of unemployed run as high as 142 million, 12 million in the cities and the rest in rural areas. Tensions caused by layoffs and other wrenching social changes were cast in stark relief three weeks ago, when the Wuhan bomb explosion killed 16 and wounded 30. Suspects include both disgruntled workers and Muslim separatists...
TIME: Does the Asian economic crisis play into his hands by giving him added authority for economic reform...
TIME: Do you regret the prominence that has been given to "Asian values...
...believe we should be completely like them. I have tried to explain we have a different historical background and different social values. These different values have made for fast growth. The collapse has come about because of a lack of systems, especially "the rule of law." If it is Asian values that brought about this disaster, how come Hong Kong and Singapore have not been affected...