Word: communist
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...They were not shy at all about showing him in full crisis mode, much more unsanitized stuff than would normally be allowed," says Beijing-based scholar Russell Leigh Moses, who added that the scenes were clearly aimed at reassuring viewers that Wen and his fellow Communist Party leaders were making the utmost effort to bring relief to victims as rapidly as possible. "The government's legitimacy is very much dependent on its ability to show that it can care for and look after ordinary Chinese, and this case is one where they have clearly made a decision to make absolutely...
...When contemplating outlawing the Ahmadiyah, the government may also be reminded of the consequences of the ban on the Indonesian Communist Party in the 1960s - a decree that was accompanied by the slaughter of an estimated 500,000 communists and suspected communists. While violence against Ahmadiyah followers has reached nowhere near those levels, some fear that government legislative action could provoke a wider torrent of violence against the sect. "It was a joint ministerial recommendation that triggered this latest violence," notes Hendardi. "Imagine what would happen if it became an official decree...
...rise of international criminal activity in the last 20 years? Two key factors are at play. The first is globalization - the liberalization of financial and commodity markets that has created huge new opportunities for the world's most adventurous entrepreneurs. The second is the fall of communism. When the communist regimes in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union imploded, they left a power vacuum that was filled by a swath of failing states that stretched from the Balkans across Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia as far as the Chinese border...
...years after the fall of communist power, the Wild East was no place for faint hearts. Artyom Tarasov, one of Russia's first post-communist millionaires, recalled how quickly business disputes could turn into something much nastier when he described an incident from 1992 at the Club Volodya Cemago in Moscow. "A number of gangsters turned up that day with a clear mission: extract several million dollars from me or, failing that, kidnap me," he said. A veritable army then emerged from both sides - 30 to 40 men. "Given that all were armed to the teeth, it was only...
...resistance to change. Huang, currently a visiting fellow at the University of Singapore's East Asia Institute, says there is a huge bulwark of entrenched officials (in the United Front Work Department - a bureaucracy dealing with Tibetan matters - the Public Security Bureau, Foreign Affairs, the Religious Affairs department, the Communist Party in Tibet and the Minority Affairs Department) who have spent their lifetimes railing against "spilittism" and not only can't imagine any other approach but would fear losing their jobs under any new arrangement. Thus, Huang says, essentially the entire Chinese establishment that administers Tibet is totally opposed...