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- with reporting by Nilanjana Bhowmick / New Delhi, Chengcheng Jiang / Beijing, Yuki Oda / Tokyo, Shashikant Sawant / Nagpur and Joost Van Egmond / Dakar
Since the global financial crisis hit last year, Chinese officials have been firm about the need to maintain about 8% economic growth to ensure stability. Before the last office door swung shut at Lehman Brothers in New York, Beijing was planning how to get there, eventually unleashing a massive $586...
"The gangster trials in Chongqing bear great significance in the [national] anti-corruption campaign," says Ren Jianming, who heads the Research Office Against Corruption at Beijing's prestigious Tsinghua University. "The fact that it started in Chongqing is more likely a result of political conflicts from within the party, and...
"There's clearly a concerted effort by sections of the party to give credit to Bo and make him more of a political rock star," says Beijing-based analyst Russell Leigh Moses. "He's popular among the younger generation, and to some extent is emblematic of new thinking and a...
Juergen Boos, the fair organizer, said he was personally angered by mistakes and compromises in the organization and communication of the pre-fair symposium. In response to Mei's statement that China wouldn't be lectured on democracy, Boos wrote on the fair's website that "the Frankfurt Book Fair...