Word: communist
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...isolation if they hope to survive freedom's onslaught. Fidel Castro's five decades in power were less the product of brilliance and charisma than the result of the U.S.-enforced isolation. Uncle Sam's embargo provided Castro with the shield he needed to survive the demise of the communist bloc. The embargo denied Castro nothing he couldn't buy elsewhere, while his totalitarian communist system has destroyed entrepreneurial initiative, squandered wealth on weapons and brought abject poverty to the Cuban populace. Tony Gonzalez, Weeki Wachee...
...Such sentiments are the reason Taiwan's March 22 presidential election is potentially one of the most important East Asia has seen in recent memory. A Ma victory could usher in a sea change in the tense relationship between China and Taiwan. In 1949 Mao Zedong's communists chased Chiang Kai-shek's KMT from the mainland after a brutal civil war, and ever since the two have glared icily at each other across the narrow but heavily armed strait that separates them. Beijing considers Taiwan to be no more than a wayward province destined to be reunified under communist...
...president of the Foundation on International and Cross-Strait Studies, puts it, the KMT "had no stage in Taiwan but found a stage in China." In 2005, then KMT chairman Lien Chan made a breakthrough visit to Beijing, during which he buried the hatchet with the party's communist foes. The DPP "perceives the mainland as a threat. We should and do," says Ma. However, he adds, "we also perceive the mainland as an opportunity...
...journalists covering prerevolutionary China can claim to be familiar with communist rebel life in the trenches. But veteran AP reporter and China watcher John Roderick was there. For months, he shared the cave Mao Zedong and other rebels used as headquarters after the Japanese flattened the city of Yan'an, the end point of the communists' Long March. Roderick went on to cover the country from its ensuing civil war through the economic reforms of the 1980s, and in 1979 reopened the AP bureau in Beijing. "Keep learning," he advised colleagues. "If you ever think you understand China completely...
...isolation if they hope to survive freedom's onslaught. Fidel Castro's five decades in power were less the product of brilliance and charisma than the result of the U.S.-enforced isolation. Uncle Sam's embargo provided Castro with the shield he needed to survive the demise of the communist bloc. The embargo denied Castro nothing he couldn't buy elsewhere, while his totalitarian communist system has destroyed entrepreneurial initiative, squandered wealth on weapons and brought abject poverty to the Cuban populace. Tony Gonzalez, WEEKI WACHEE...