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...ChinaI normalized diplomatic relations with China in 1979. Immediately after that, Deng Xiaoping, who was the premier of China, asked if the Carter Center would help him in the democratization of these little villages-there are about 650,000 of them and they are not part of the Communist party structure. So he and subsequent governments have ordained that those villages can have a democratic election. The Carter Center has had a contract with the government of China now for roughly 10 years to monitor the compliance of those laws in the villages...
...deputy. Now 82, the most senior Khmer Rouge leader still surviving in Cambodia has had years to prepare for his eventual arrest. He surrendered to the government in 1998 but had been allowed to live in quiet retirement with his wife in a region that was a communist stronghold until the mid-1990s. After being arrested and fingerprinted, Nuon Chea was helped into a helicopter as local villagers raised their arms to bid their former leader goodbye and to wish him good luck in his trial...
...like others before them, have wanted to use the world's attention on their nation to reduce the iron grip that politics and ideology have held over their lives for so long. "The Olympics are about human nature," says Bao Tong, a former adviser to Zhao Ziyang, the reformist Communist Party General Secretary at the time of the Tiananmen massacre in 1989. "You cannot separate the Olympics from human rights." But this is not yet a view that has commended itself to the authorities. "You are very active these days, aren't you?" a senior policeman told Hu recently. "Just...
While ordinary Chinese are certainly proud to be hosting the Games, there's little doubt about who has the most to gain if the Olympics pass without a hitch. China's Communist Party "only has two sources of legitimacy," says Michael Duke, a professor emeritus of Chinese studies at the University of Vancouver, "nationalism and economics, and the Olympics encapsulate both of them." China's leadership has built up the Olympics as a celebration of the party's administrative competence. Now it wishes to use the Games to confirm China's new international stature and expunge the last vestiges...
...Pledging to pursue nuclear energy for peaceful purposes, the North signed the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty in 1985, yet it didn’t allow inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) into the country until 1992. When inspectors demanded greater access to the nuclear reactor at Yongbyon, the communist leadership blustered that the IAEA was the U.S.’s poodle and kicked inspectors out of the country.Despite the North’s past transgressions, the recent February deal seems to be a knockoff of the Agreed Framework, North Korea’s most famous broken promise. Signed...