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...hardly alone in his hopeless quest. At any given time, an estimated 50,000 aggrieved citizens from all over the mainland can be found in a collection of slums surrounding the ill-named Happiness Road that fronts one of the biggest of Beijing's 30 or so petition offices. This petitioners' village, with its desperate residents pushing plastic bags filled with documents at any interested passersby, is an embarrassment for the central government. So, each year, as the NPC plans its annual meeting in the capital to discuss major legislative and social issues, the police raze the petitioners' shantytown?only...
...mingling with common folk a signature of their new administration?from shaking hands with aids patients to chatting with coal miners?the common touch hasn't trickled down to China's provincial leaders, who are widely viewed as aloof and corrupt. Without any recourse on the local level, the mainland's disenfranchised see little choice but to head to the capital. Their increasingly vocal calls for justice show that despite China's economic expansion, many citizens are simmering with discontent. NPC petition offices, one of many venues in Beijing for accepting citizen complaints, say they received about 20,000 petitions...
...TIME: In the past, hasn't ambiguity over Taiwan's status secured peace in the strait? Chen: China talks of "one China." The previous KMT administration also talked of "one China"?they wanted to recover the mainland and have refused to give it up. Even now the KMT still insists on the policy of eventual unification. I think this is very unrealistic. With both sides of the Taiwan Strait singing the same tune, the result is that Taiwan is isolated in the international community, giving China ever better excuses for its attempt to absorb Taiwan, to make Taiwan into...
...prices has made some investors wary, he says "there's still plenty of demand." That may be the understatement of the year. Chinese stocks, particularly initial public offerings (IPOs), are the hottest investment of the moment. The index for "H shares," as the Hong Kong-listed stocks of mainland Chinese firms are called, spiked 152% in 2003. After three years of indifference to stocks during a bad bear market, many ordinary Hong Kongers are now giddy over just about any new offering with the word China attached to it, hoping to cash in by flipping shares within hours or days...
...style when a local court sentenced him to life in jail as one of 67 officials indicted for taking bribes while supervising the conversion of Harbin's bomb shelters into an underground shopping mall. Accused of pocketing some $112,000 in bribes, Zhu attracted huge media attention on the mainland. He was fictionalized first in a best-selling book, Covering the Tracks, then in a hit TV mini-series. Now, his drama was about to take an even stranger twist...