Word: jing
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...Commercial Bank of China, Bank of China and China Construction Bank - that themselves are getting hurt by an economic slowdown and a real estate slump at home. "This is a significant policy initiative aimed at supporting China's leading financial institutions at a time of global turmoil," says Jing Ulrich, chairman of China securities at JPMorgan in Hong Kong. It's another way of saying to CIC's Gao Xiqing, If you come home from New York having increased our stake in Morgan Stanley, it had better be the sweetest deal anyone in Beijing has ever seen...
...their callous refusal to allow the international community to help in the wake of Cyclone Nargis, which killed at least 100,000 in early May. China has "a chance to show the world that it has the capability and readiness to handle an emergency like this," says Huang Jing, a visiting scholar and China expert at the National University of Singapore...
...cope with a horrific disaster. Keenly aware of the opprobrium heaped on Burma's rulers for their callous and incompetent handling of the killer cyclone earlier this month, Beijing will want to demonstrate that it has "the capability and readiness to handle an emergency like this," says Huang Jing, a China scholar at the National University of Singapore. Swift and transparent handling of the tragedy would also mark another step in Beijing's evolution from an unfeeling regime that suppressed bad news--as it tried to do with the SARS outbreak in 2003--to one more responsive to the needs...
Even more daunting, according to scholar Huang Jing, is the institutional resistance to change. Huang, currently a visiting fellow at the University of Singapore's East Asia Institute, says there is a huge bulwark of entrenched officials (in the United Front Work Department - a bureaucracy dealing with Tibetan matters - the Public Security Bureau, Foreign Affairs, the Religious Affairs department, the Communist Party in Tibet and the Minority Affairs Department) who have spent their lifetimes railing against "spilittism" and not only can't imagine any other approach but would fear losing their jobs under any new arrangement. Thus, Huang says, essentially...
...student protest, which began as an expression of nationalist ire over China's treatment by foreign powers in the run-up to the Versailles Treaty but then turned into an antigovernment movement. Could today's protests take a similar turn? Plenty of Chinese have grouses about their rulers. Huang Jing, a visiting China scholar at the National University of Singapore's East Asian Institute, says public dissatisfaction could spill over into issues ranging from soaring inflation, the plunging stock market and rampant official corruption. If the government "lets nationalism keep rising unchecked, it could suddenly find its own position threatened...