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...ever in China, figuring out exactly what senior Communist Party cadres intend by such actions is a frustrating and sometimes fruitless exercise. China watchers remain divided about just how centrally coordinated such actions are. In the case of Chen Guangcheng, for example, it is unclear whether his sentence was solely decided by local officials or sanctioned - even tacitly - by Beijing. Some speculate that China's President Hu Jintao is putting on a show of strength to bolster his relatively weak grip on the reins of power; the crackdown is seen as clearing the decks of potentially embarrassing dissenters before Beijing...
...system. They often get little government encouragement. Significant tax incentives for philanthropy don't exist in the region, and in some countries the rich who do give are as likely to be looked upon with suspicion as gratitude. The relationship is especially fraught in China, where even before the communist era, private giving had to be done in conjunction with the authorities. "Those who acted outside the state, as the Rockefellers did [in the U.S.], could have been seen as potentially dangerous, undermining the power of the government," says Vivienne Shue, a professor of Chinese studies at Oxford University...
...investigation may also signal a power play by Hu ahead of the Communist Party's annual confab in October. His predecessor, Jiang Zemin, hailed from Shanghai and seeded the government with prot?g?s including Party boss Chen, who had been mentioned for possible promotion to Beijing. A hometown scandal could weaken the influence of the so-called "Shanghai gang," allowing Hu to install his own acolytes in positions of power. "The Chinese leadership understands that releasing the details of corruption in Shanghai just before the October meeting will have a big impact," says Joseph Cheng, a China expert at City University...
...hard-nosed foreign policy realists insisted that China's collapse was to the U.S.'s advantage. Some veteran cold warriors looked forward to the demise of the last communist regime in the world. To most Chinese, however, free elections were just a way for the party to pass the buck for its economic failure. To most Americans, the China crisis was just an addition to their existing economic woes, as Chinese investors frantically unloaded their U.S. assets...
...have never been so outraged as when I read this profile. I am a child of a Cuban emigrant whose life was destroyed by the revolution. Another family member was tortured under orders from Raúl for protesting the actions of the Communist Party for 10 years. Mascareñas should have spoken with people who have experienced the actions of Fidel and Raúl; she needs to get the whole picture...