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...This portrait of the party's Machiavellian backroom politics runs sharply counter to China's government-sanctioned mythology, and Gao's book has already been controversial in his homeland. Chinese officials pressured him not to publish, he says, and even made veiled threats toward his family still living in China. The Chinese version, published in 2003, was banned - although it became a black-market best seller. Gao is unsurprised by the fuss. "After Tiananmen, the government lost power," he says. "Zhou is now the only party leader who the people respect and love. If his reputation is destroyed, there will...
...behest of the United States, say analysts. A superficial power-sharing agreement does little to solve Pakistan's fundamental problems. Those who take the long view say the best solution would be a true representative democracy that evolves from the will of the people rather than by cynical backroom deals. "We are on an irreversible path to constitutional democracy," says Nasim Zehra, an Islamabad-based Security analyst and fellow at the Harvard University Asia Center. "But to be banking on individuals at this point as a remedy for extremism is as naive as anybody saying that General Musharraf's reelection...
Howard Lederer, a two-time World Poker Tour champion, and Crandell Addington, one of the founders of the World Series of Poker, told the audience that poker—which is illegal in several states, including Texas—should be allowed to emerge from its backroom days...
...rest of China's leadership, a chance to start addressing those issues will come when the party's 17th Congress, the first in five years, opens in Beijing on Oct. 15. More than 2,000 party members will gather for a few days of factional maneuvering and backroom deals. New policies will be adopted and new appointments made to the Standing Committee of the Politburo--the nine-member inner Cabinet of China--but so opaque are China's politics that the tea-leaf readers will be busy for years. "Even when you know the names and positions...
...While the strongly nationalist Tymoshenko won't join Russia ally Yanukovych in a coalition, it's quite possible that President Yuschenko's party will agree to share power with his erstwhile presidential rival. Right now, the President is keeping his options open, having already begun the backroom horse-trading. There will also be smaller factions, such as the Communists, seeking to profit from serving as make-weights in a coalition government...