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...Pyongyang's politics are opaque even to long-time foreign residents. But the government's attempt to wrest control of grain sales from private traders is widely seen as an attempt to reassert political control. One of the few slivers of freedom granted in recent years?the right to trade produce and household goods in the officially sanctioned farmers' markets?has already engendered a modest change in mindset. But there have been indicators of greater repression since last year, when the government outlawed cell phones for the general public shortly after setting up a national network. This year, officials...
When I first traveled to China in the late 1970s as a student and then a foreign correspondent, the Chinese were giddily beginning to explore the new boundaries of freedom after Mao Zedong's death. There was a propaganda onslaught against the Gang of Four--the quartet (including Mao's wife Jiang Qing) that was blamed for the Cultural Revolution, the decade of terror that Mao had unleashed and then nourished. Mao didn't count among the fiendish four, but when the plucky Chinese I encountered talked of the Gang, they would hold up five fingers, then fold the thumb...
...role in formulating and promoting Mikhail Gorbachev's program of political liberalization in the Soviet Union in the 1980s; in Moscow. After rising through the ranks of the Communist Party as a propagandist and censor, Yakovlev embraced perestroika, or restructuring, and supported political competition, encouraged artists and freedom of the press, and repeatedly publicized abuses perpetrated during the Soviet...
...Peace and Development Shibley Telhami, Pakistani journalist Beena Sarwar, and Jordanian diplomat Jafar Hassan. Zogby opened the discussion by presenting recent polls that gauged attitudes toward America within Arab countries. He said that while President George W. Bush claimed that some Arabs hate the United States for its freedom and democracy, his data paints a different picture. A large percentage of Arabs have favorable attitudes toward American values, people, and institutions, according to the data. Zogby said that Arabs who have visited the U.S. are more likely to hold a favorable opinion of the nation than those who have...
...threat to them will be less likely to try to challenge American power or cooperate with American opponents. Central to Walt’s argument is his analysis of anti-American sentiment. Unlike Bush’s declaration that “they hate us because we love freedom,” Walt believes that only a small part of anti-American sentiment is the result of automatic resentment of American values or American political and cultural dominance. Instead, Walt demonstrates, most anti-American sentiment is generated by specific American actions and policies. Historic precedents, like the United States?...