Word: communist
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...ChinaI normalized diplomatic relations with China in 1979. Immediately after that, Deng Xiaoping, who was the premier of China, asked if the Carter Center would help him in the democratization of these little villages-there are about 650,000 of them and they are not part of the Communist party structure. So he and subsequent governments have ordained that those villages can have a democratic election. The Carter Center has had a contract with the government of China now for roughly 10 years to monitor the compliance of those laws in the villages...
...Sarkozy and his backers, it was overthrowing Nazi domination for the freedom and liberty of the French nation; to others, it was overthrowing the very market system Sarkozy is seeking to bolster as he reforms France's welfare state. The youthful Môquet, many observers note, was a communist committed to revolution; a poem he wrote on the day of his arrest promised to "kill capitalism," and sought to give heart to those "brothers in slavery (jailed by) the traitors of our country, those agents of capitalism." Little wonder, then, that Môquet has always been a preferred...
...While they may restrain him from concluding a pact of such epic importance, Singh can ill afford to lose the support of the communists, because their departure from his coalition would have forced snap elections 18 months early. If he had been counting on convincing the Left to drop its opposition to the deal at the eleventh hour, he has badly miscalculated. Communist demands that the government refrain from negotiating nuclear safeguards with the IAEA - the next phase of implementing the deal - have prevailed, and it is the government that appears to have been forced to back down...
...rebellion of Singh's communist coalition partners has been brewing for some time: The Left Front resented India's betrayal of its traditional ally Iran when Singh's government voted alongside the U.S. to refer Tehran's nuclear program to the U.N. Security Council. And they oppose India being drawn closer to the U.S. strategic orbit, staging mass demonstrations last month against India's involvement in joint naval exercises in the Bay of Bengal with the U.S., Australia and Japan...
...such old-school "anti-imperialist" posturing appears somewhat anachronistic, if not hypocritical, when an economically resurgent China - no longer the Maoist backwater once so admired by India's Communist vanguard - looms large to the north, while some of the Indian leftists, like the Communist government in West Bengal, advocate trade-friendly reforms and the creation of special economic zones...