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Like many of the oracular pronouncements of China's Communist Party, the arrest last week of Shanghai Party boss Chen Liangyu had multiple meanings. On one level, the purge of a prominent Politburo member-over allegations that Chen allowed associates to milk Shanghai's pension accounts to fund investments in the city's booming real estate-was widely seen as a political move by President Hu Jintao to consolidate power ahead of next year's Party Congress. On a second level, Chen's arrest, along with the news late last week that real estate speculation was also under scrutiny...
...Chen's arrest, while signaling that the skimming of pensions won't be tolerated, hasn't necessarily reassured those most likely to depend on them. Yuncheng, 70, a retired Shanghai municipal official, regards Chen's alleged actions as a sign that the Communist Party has lost its way. He fumes: "They are more corrupt than the Kuomintang...
...help the development of democracy in Muslim countries by sending troops, as it did in Iraq, sounds like a strategy Stalin would have used. But after World War II, it was the economic support provided by the U.S. through the Marshall Plan that saved countries like Italy from becoming communist states. Bolstering the economies of Muslim countries striving for democracy would have been a better response than exporting war. Maurizio Muraca Rome...
...plan to teach public-school students about Vietnam's rare and endangered species. The problem, Quyen says, was that at age 25, she wasn't so long out of school herself. Environmental enthusiasts co-sponsoring the group were even younger, and that didn't go down well in a communist state where seniority counts and youthful feistiness isn't necessarily prized. "It was very difficult because we were very young," says Quyen. "None of us were doctors or professors or those kinds of people. We didn't have a history of working with the government...
...same coalition government, denounce his call as irresponsible demagoguery; they worry about Estonian competitiveness being harmed if wages outstrip productivity. The polarization grew particularly acute in the run-up to the recent presidential election, a bruising contest between the incumbent Arnold Rüütel, a grandfatherly former communist official who is 78 and fluent in Russian, and the challenger, Toomas Hendrik Ilves, a slick American-educated foreign-policy specialist who is 26 years Rüütel's junior and claims to speak for "the 65% of Estonians who are pro-Western and forward looking." Ilves narrowly...