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JERUSALEM, Israel — In the United States, the issue of “loyalty to the state” smacks of extreme right-wing xenophobia, the sort that characterized, say, the McCarthy Communist witch hunts of the 1950s...
...wars, epidemics and unrest - was initially seen as an economic boon. "Even if China's population multiplies many times, she is fully capable of finding a solution; the solution is production," Mao Zedong proclaimed in 1949. "Of all things in the world, people are the most precious." The communist government condemned birth control and banned imports of contraceptives. (Read a TIME cover story on China's growing power...
...supply. In 1955 officials launched a campaign to promote birth control, only to have their efforts reversed in 1958 by the Great Leap Forward - Mao's disastrous attempt to rapidly convert China into a modern industrialized state. "A larger population means greater manpower," reasoned Hu Yaobang, secretary of the Communist Youth League, at a national conference of youth work representatives that April. "The force of 600 million liberated people is tens of thousands of times stronger than a nuclear explosion...
...There no doubt as to why the subject is so sensitive. Whenever an authoritarian leader's children are the subject of scandal, a potential avenue of attack for that leader's enemies is opened. Hu Jintao is no different. At the top levels of the ruling Communist Party, power is balanced almost evenly between Hu's supporters and their main opponents, the "princelings," a lose amalgamation of the offspring and relatives of former senior party officials. Signs of a power struggle were already evident to some scholars earlier this year, when several senior party officials in Guangdong province...
...Certainly there are reasons to think a power grab could be triggered if, as Shih puts it, "they find some dirt on one of the top leaders." Hu is increasingly a lame duck. He is set to retire in 2012, after his second five-year term as President and Communist Party General Secretary...