Word: authoritarianism
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Every so often, America's China policy runs smack into the fact that China and the U.S. are fundamentally different countries. China is ruled by an authoritarian regime that seeks to increase its military influence abroad. The U.S., on the other hand, is a status quo power that wants to impose its political ideals on other countries. Despite the oft-voiced desire for "partnership" between the two nations, it seems that there is little for them to agree on. While the mistaken bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade was, in and of itself, a minor incident, it has removed...
Instead, by urging students and workers to persist in a hunger strike and by preventing the government from welcoming Soviet leader Gorbachev on Tiananmen Square, the leaders of the protest humiliated and alienated Chinese leaders. The movement turned a paternalistic government into an authoritarian regime...
Instead, by urging students and workers to persist in a hunger strike and by preventing the government from welcoming Soviet leader Gorbachev on Tiananmen Square, the leaders of the protest humiliated and alienated Chinese leaders. The movement turned a paternalistic government into an authoritarian regime...
...dinner went well. Fern thought I could have been more enthusiastic, but I thought I was pretty enthusiastic," Nesson says, adding that the questions at dinner aimed to determine "if we were authoritarian types or not, if we'd be eating there or not, if we were going to make the environment flower...
...dinner went well. Fern thought I couldhave been more enthusiastic, but I thought I waspretty enthusiastic," Nesson says, adding thatthe questions at dinner aimed to determine "if wewere authoritarian types or not, if we'd be eatingthere or not, if we were going to make theenvironment flower...