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...international stage, Beijing seems to be backing up its claim to the mandate of heaven by going there. Of late, China has shown its global power by nudging North Korea into negotiations to end its nuclear-weapons program, attending a Group of Eight meeting of the world's capitalist powers and leading the developing world to demand more benefits from the World Trade Organization in September. Now comes a space effort designed to generate national pride and display the country's vigor. Along the way, Beijing will pick up military technology and, no doubt, some catchy consumer items to match...
...that it should hold a special presidential election afterward. For now, the front-runner in any election would be Morales, 43, who also leads the Movement to Socialism Party. Should he win, it would be one more piece of evidence that Latin America's backlash against globalization - especially the capitalist reforms that have so far done more harm than good for the region's 500 million people in poverty - could revive the failed left-wing economic policies that provoked those free-market reforms in the first place. Brazil, for example, last year elected former labor leader Luiz...
...minute speech railing on the sloppiness of American foreign policy—Kubik was one of the few audience members who didn’t ask about the nature of communist economic oppression, the daunting tasks facing China when (and if) it makes the switch to a capitalist system, or Brazilian labor leader-turned-President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. No, Kubik went for a more specific topic...
...international stage, Beijing wants to back up its claim to the mandate of heaven by going there. Of late, China has shown its global power by nudging North Korea into negotiations to end its nuclear weapons program, attending a Group of Eight meeting of the world's capitalist powers and, last week, leading the developing world to demand more benefits from the World Trade Organization. Now comes a space effort designed to unify the country and display national vigor. Along the way, Beijing will pick up military technologies and, no doubt, some catchy consumer items to match the smoke detectors...
...Meanwhile, China's new entrepreneurs are focusing, in true capitalist fashion, on how to exploit intergalactic travel for a quick buck. Stamps bearing the Shenzhou image have become collector's items, and the Jianlibao company promotes its sports drinks with pictures of an astronaut. Several companies have even applied to run their corporate logos on the side of the spacecraft for its first manned launch. "There are no such plans [to allow this] at present," state-run media responded. But when commerce and spaceships meet in China, the sky's the limit...