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...More effort should be put into understanding the Chinese mind-set. It is naive to think that any conflict with Western or Christian ethics is a result of the Communist Party. The major contribution of the Communist Party to Chinese culture is an organized platform that has the ability to enforce opinions. For millenniums, Chinese culture has revered power and ignored the plight of the underdog. The Chinese respect strength, but if threatened, will retaliate with even greater strength. They will not accept help or surrender their values. David Cherbonnier Singapore...
...asserts, adding that only 10% of investors rejected the government's compensation offer. Yulin mayor Wang denies that anybody is complaining about anything these days. "There was no conflict with private oil enterprises," says Wang, because "most were happy with the compensation." The city's Communist Party vice secretary told TIME that the reclaimed wells now provide one-third of the town's revenue. Liu, the former driller now in hiding, says his only hope is for top-level intervention: "If leaders in Beijing knew our side, maybe they would help...
...heard so much about the parks around the world, and they want to experience the same thing," says Don Robinson, managing director of Hong Kong Disneyland. Disney may be catching China at just the right time: Chinese consumers want to connect with the global pop culture that poverty and communist dictate had long kept out of reach. The Chinese, says Kevin Wong, a tourism economist at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, "want to come to Disney because it is American. The foreignness is part of the appeal...
...political hysteria is the fact that, according to U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) documents seen by TIME, CNOOC, not Chevron, was actually Unocal's first choice as a merger partner. Some beltway politicians would paint CNOOC, which is 70% state-owned, as an arm of a Communist government out to strip the U.S. of vital energy supplies. TIME's reporting on the genesis of CNOOC's Unocal bid?dubbed "Operation Treasure Ship" by the Chinese company's investment bankers?reveals a far more complicated reality. CNOOC is a flagship Chinese firm determined to emerge as a major player...
China's transition from a Communist dictatorship to a free, capitalist democracy is inevitable. You can't give an oppressed people like the Chinese a taste of the free market without expecting them to rise up against their rulers...