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Bequelin and others say the Communist Party's profound fear of the impact of the world economic crisis on China's already fragile social stability has strengthened party hardliners. They argue that the lack of international response to Beijing's suppression of political dissent before and during the Olympic Games...
•Served as a diplomat in Beijing and Stockholm. Later rose to prominence in Australia's Parliament as the Labor Party's "shadow foreign minister" and as an outspoken critic of Prime Minister John Howard's support for the war in Iraq.
While nationalism can help unify the country to respond to events like the Sichuan earthquake, the fear is that if the sentiment flares unchecked, it could push Beijing to take a belligerent, isolationist line.
Yet China is not pleased. That, at least, is the assertion of a new book written by a group of Chinese authors who list their grievances with how China is being treated in the world today. Unhappy China, released this month, is a follow-up to the 1996 work China...
Wang and Son also direct their ire at targets at home. They assert that China suffers from weaknesses in its political system and that democracy should be the nation's ultimate goal. But when they discuss democracy they are more likely to highlight the failures of India and the Philippines...