Word: communist
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...heard so much about the parks around the world, and they want to experience the same thing," says Don Robinson, managing director of Hong Kong Disneyland. Disney may be catching China at just the right time: Chinese consumers want to connect with the global pop culture that poverty and communist dictate had long kept out of reach. The Chinese, says Kevin Wong, a tourism economist at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, "want to come to Disney because it is American. The foreignness is part of the appeal...
...political hysteria is the fact that, according to U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) documents seen by TIME, CNOOC, not Chevron, was actually Unocal's first choice as a merger partner. Some beltway politicians would paint CNOOC, which is 70% state-owned, as an arm of a Communist government out to strip the U.S. of vital energy supplies. TIME's reporting on the genesis of CNOOC's Unocal bid?dubbed "Operation Treasure Ship" by the Chinese company's investment bankers?reveals a far more complicated reality. CNOOC is a flagship Chinese firm determined to emerge as a major player...
...Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich. This cache of riches has been piling up at the apartment, home of Matsov's father, Roman, Shostakovich's favorite conductor. The works were performed and recorded against the will of Soviet bosses, who either banned Shostakovich or suspected him of "formalism" and other anti-Communist sins. The persecution is commonly thought to have succeeded in breaking him, but as the recordings prove, the composer resisted with the help of Russian pianist Maria Yudina and Matsov's father. "This collection gives the lie to the myth of Shostakovich being cowed into abject submission by Stalin," says...
...young student who is Chinese, I have been exposed only to the notion that China is communist and bad. I hope your report will help many readers understand that China isn't as bad as some history teachers make it out to be. Americans need to accept the fact that a country as big and as great as China will overtake...
China's transition from a Communist dictatorship to a free, capitalist democracy is inevitable. You can't give an oppressed people like the Chinese a taste of the free market without expecting them to rise up against their rulers...