Word: communists
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Though Taiwan has an independent, democratic government, it remains a territory of the communist Peoples Republic of China. Economic interests are crucial in maintaining their ties. According to Chen, Taiwanese entrepreneurs make up China's second largest source of outside investment...
Lastly, I laughed out loud when you claimed that the Russian people "won" the Cold War by utilizing "Marxist theory." If anything, they were victims of it. By risking their lives during the protests against the Communist coup members, the Russian people were rejecting Marxism in practice. They were tired of religious oppression, of the arrogant, elitist Communist party and of the specter of the return of Stalinism...
There has been no open criticism of the man known simply as "the Boss." Yet sometimes silence is more ominous. At a meeting of the Communist Party leadership last week in Beijing, the official topic for discussion was improving farmers' welfare. (The issue may seem mundane, but China has 800 million citizens living on farms, so agricultural reform remains essential.) The issue of preventing state industry and the entire banking system from disappearing into a black hole was not mentioned in the final communique, but Zhu's once ambitious plans are still the subject of a fierce backroom debate. Everyone...
...June has fallen silent. Surveillance of dissidents has been increased, and in September police detained activists in four provinces for trying to legally register the China Democratic Party, which would have been the country's first opposition political group. Last week President Jiang Zemin issued a call to improve Communist Party control at the village level. This was a far cry from the village elections China holds, sometimes hinting that they are the first step toward democracy...
Italy's gone communist! Back in the domino-theory days of the Cold War, heads would be rolling at the CIA; instead, there was nary a raised eyebrow in Washington Thursday as reconstructed communist Massimo D'Alema made his maiden speech as prime minister. And that's not only because he's committed to a "caring capitalism" rather than any kind of socialism. "This government will pursue exactly the same economic policies as its predecessor," says TIME's Rome correspondent Greg Burke. "They're going to submit the same budget that brought down Romano Prodi, and this time...