Word: communist
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...income gap among Chinese residents has been worsening since the year of 2003 and has reached the 'yellow' alarm level. Should there be no effective measures, it will reach the dangerous 'red' level in five years." ARTICLE appearing in China's Communist Party-run newspaper Study Times last week, seen as a government acknowledgement that increasing social unrest across the country might be tied to a growing gap between rich and poor...
Klaus also said he that he supports the Czech Republic’s membership despite his opposition to many of the EU practices. Klaus’s justification for Czech membership lies in the idea that post-Communist countries need EU acceptance to achieve some modicum of “international recognition” and legitimacy...
...expects this will enrage apparatchiks, but says, "then we'll do it outdoors, under the open skies." "It is a great compliment to the artists that they should be feared," says Stoppard. In Belarus to give a master class to the FT, he was reminded of his visits to communist Czechoslovakia, when he saw actors perform banned works in private apartments. As Vaclav Havel, the playwright who led that country's revolution and became its President reminded FT members in a letter of support, "it was the Prague actors' strike in 1989 that triggered" the peaceful uprising. "It's extraordinary...
...APPROVED. Plans to honor former Chinese Communist Party leader HU YAOBANG at Beijing's Great Hall of the People; by President Hu Jintao; in Beijing. The celebration of the 90th anniversary of the late leader's birth will end more than a decade of official silence about his legacy. His April 1989 death sparked pro-democracy demonstrations in Tiananmen Square that were crushed in the massacre seven weeks later...
...Managing Director, Goldman Sachs (Asia), Hong Kong Despite stunning economic and social progress in the past quarter of a century, the average American still paints China in red: a nation seized by radical communist ideologies. In reality, today's China is a freewheeling and prosperous capitalist economy, rapidly converging on an American-style economic and social system based on entrepreneurship and free trade. President Hu should be China's super-salesman to convince Americans to accept China as an equal partner, not as a threatening enemy...