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...sense, there are. China's long economic rise began in the 1980s when the communist government began dismantling inefficient state-owned companies and expanding the private sector, allowing greater scope for unfettered capitalism. But in recent years, the pendulum has begun to swing the other way. Many of China's state-owned enterprises (SOEs) have grown into giants, eclipsing the relatively young, private companies that have contributed heavily to the country's progress. That trend is being reinforced as China implements economic stimulus measures that in practice boost state-owned giants while private companies are left largely to fend...
...might expect, such ideas aren’t exactly in line with China’s current government. As a participant in the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, Tian sidesteps any outright derision of the Communist party. When pressed for an opinion, Tian says, “Nothing lasts forever. In the grand scheme of history, it’s really a very short period of time...
...Yellow Earth” takes place in a village on the banks of the Yellow River, where a soldier has been sent to collect folk songs to be used for promoting the Communist Revolution. His primary source is a young girl named Cuiqiao, who longs to escape her village and the arranged marriage that awaits her. Through haunting, tragic songs the girl communicates to the soldier—and, it is implied, to the country that surrounds them—the misery and oppression of life in rural China...
...ruthless buffoon. In 2007, he filed more than a dozen lawsuits against various media outlets and figures, including cartoonist Jonathan "Zapiro" Shapiro, who once depicted Zuma preparing to rape the justice system in the form of a blindfolded woman pinned down by his political allies in the ANC, the Communist Party and the ANC Youth League...
...documents and was lobbied by CIA Director Leon Panetta to keep them classified. In the end, the case for transparency was too great. The harsh tactics--isolation, sleep deprivation, humiliation, waterboarding--not only had been widely reported, but much of it was also acknowledged to have originated in "Communist Attempts to Elicit False Confessions from Air Force Prisoners of War," a 1957 article written for the Air Force about abusive Chinese interrogations of U.S. troops during the Korean War. Anyone who wanted to could find it via Google for years...