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...fight. Jean Gazaniol says he hesitated for a long time, but then finally bowed to reality and sold the Château de Parenchère, which his father bought almost 50 years ago. It's a gorgeous 19th century mansion with 65 hectares of vines whose wine is exported to 60 countries. The estate was bought by Per Landin, a Swede who made his fortune trading oil in London and who says he's passionate about wine. He's 44, and was looking for a place in which to retire. Gazaniol has promised to help...
...China as a whole remains a huge disappointment for the world's winemakers. Just a few years ago, there were broad expectations that China would be the Next Big Thing in the wine world, following in the footsteps of Japan and South Korea, which have both developed into substantial export markets. So far, it hasn't happened. "The feeding frenzy about China is not reflected in the size of the market," says Ian Ford, a wine importer in China. Wine sales in China are rising, but they are still tiny; Chinese consumption is a minute 0.3 L per head...
...people and elected through universal suffrage. And this democratic deficit has big repercussions, even according to the President's own daughter. "Launching a more sophisticated and competitive economy requires a much freer political system," concludes Dariga Nazarbayeva. Without it, Kazakhstan will remain, for all its achievements, a raw-materials export economy, shored up by high oil prices...
...should at least allow the citizens of Iraq to enjoy the democratic right to select their own representatives. We should not dictate that the government be favorably disposed to us, as that would violate the basic tenets of the democracy we are ostensibly seeking to export to the Middle East. Bill Gottdenker Mountainside, New Jersey...
...people and elected through universal suffrage. And this democratic deficit has big repercussions, even according to the President's own daughter. "Launching a more sophisticated and competitive economy requires a much freer political system," concludes Dariga Nazarbayeva. Without it, Kazakhstan will remain, for all its achievements, a raw-materials export economy, shored up by high oil prices. For now, Papa remains firmly in charge, and has little incentive to change. Might Bush give him a lecture in democracy this week? An administration official insists that the White House wants Kazakhstan to "accelerate itself down the path of democracy." But Nazarbayev...