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...that China's communist rulers, fearful of social unrest that can force them from power, will succeed in buying their way to their target of 8% GDP growth, the magic number that will supposedly ensure that enough of the 1.3 billion population will have jobs. The central government has already started spending $585 billion in fiscal stimulus, second in size only to America's $787 billion (and counting) package. A second stimulus package valued at 130 billion renminbi ($19 billion) is expected to be unveiled soon...
...interrogations can be gleaned from their origins, which top Bush Administration officials didn't even know about, according to the New York Times. The techniques the CIA drew on ultimately go back to an article written for the Air Force about Chinese torture techniques during the Korean War, entitled "Communist Attempts to Elicit False Confessions from Air Force Prisoners of War." As the title indicates, the Chinese intent was to produce false confessions, not obtain vital intelligence...
...village level for decades. In the last ten years, the polls have reached almost every one of China's over 600,000 villages. Urban residents have no direct elections, and all other official positions above the village level are indirectly elected in polls over which the ruling Communist Party maintains strict control. Although the village elections are still dismissed by some critics as an attempt by the Party to be able to show direct democracy in action in China without conceding any real power, they have received the growing endorsement of one key electorate: the villagers themselves. "When we first...
...village. The leadership was so disappointing that it drove me away. I can't wait to see a new village leader who can help change the situation." At a time when millions of other like him are returning to their villages with similarly bitter memories and high expectations, Communist Party cadres must be delighted that they have put in place a system where, for once, someone else can take the blame when things go wrong...
...April 23, it will be 60 years to the day that nine warships and 17 other boats defected from Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomingtang during China's civil war, becoming the first vessels in what would become the Chinese Communist government's Navy. To commemorate the occasion, China's military is hosting four days of pomp and ceremony, to recall its meager beginnings, and to celebrate how far it has come. (See pictures of China's economic expansion into Africa...