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...CORRUPTION 18 Prison sentence, in years, handed down to former Shanghai Communist Party boss Chen Liangyu for corruption charges involving $4.8 billion in stolen cash 22 Number of members of the National People's Congress, China's legislative body, who have been ousted in the past five years on corruption charges...
...traditions of the last century, Putin has emerged as the new "Gensek," the Russian abbreviation previously used for Secretaries General of the Communist Party. Vladimir Illyich Lenin was not the Chairman of the Supreme Soviet - the USSR's titular Head of State. That role was filled by his lieutenant Yakov Sverdlov. But the Communist Party leader, as Chairman of the Cabinet, held real executive power. The same was true of Joseph Stalin and his titular Head of State, Mikhail Kalinin. Nikita Khrushchev combined the offices of the Gensek and Prime Minister, while Leonid Brezhnev combined his leadership of the party...
...political mainstream, but efforts to further the process along have been marred throughout by political squabbling and vigilante violence. In the run-up to yesterday's elections, at least 60 people were killed. Reports filtered in every day of bombings, kidnappings, and armed thugs-especially from the Young Communist League, a Maoist youth wing-running riot...
...predictable of challenges: discontent in Tibet and international condemnation of Beijing's record of repression. The extent of their surprise can be gauged by their reaction--a brutal crackdown on dissent at home and a deaf ear to criticism from abroad--which is more reminiscent of the heavy-handed communist regime of old than the modern, moderate Beijing that the Olympics are meant to showcase...
...line has left many observers puzzled. The wiser course would seem to be a more measured response: to practice better crowd control, manage the media better, try negotiation instead of knee-jerk repression. But China's rulers have shown little such dexterity. Some of the reasons are straightforward. The Communist Party is deeply secretive and highly bureaucratic, and its members are steeped in a long-standing culture of self-preservation. "Part of the head-in-sand problem has to do with entrenched bureaucratic interests," says China expert Perry Link of Princeton University. Officials who have devoted most of their careers...