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...astronauts are scheduled to don the spacesuits, and one will make the historic spacewalk. A small monitoring satellite will be released from the ship during the mission. The crew is People's Liberation Army Air Force fighter pilots Zhai Zhigang, Liu Boming and Jing Haipeng. "Shenzhou VII is another breakthrough in China's development of manned spaceflght, and we are entrusted with an honorable mission with historical significance," Zhai told a pre-launch press conference on Sept. 24. "As an astronaut, it is the greatest honor to launch into space on behalf of our motherland...
...message of this is that the Party has right control policy because of all it has done," says Cheng. "It hosted the Olympics, it put Chinese into space and made China a first-ranked space power." The prestige that comes from a national space program are clear, says Li Jing, a retired Chinese Academy of Science astronomer. "Chinese people of my age have a lot of feeling towards former President Kennedy. Why? Because the Apollo project catapulted the U.S. into a scientific leader," he says. Like America during the last space race, China could expect a space program would lead...
...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...