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...implications for democratic reform. Chan faces the pro-Beijing camp's anointed candidate, former security chief Regina Ip. Defeat for Ip will be interpreted as a vote for Chan's political platform, which includes the introduction of universal suffrage by 2012. It is an anxious prospect for mainland China, which vets candidates for Hong Kong's top offices. Yet Chan says she is uncowed by Beijing's disapproval: "I'm putting my money where my mouth...
...reform. Under the Basic Law, Hong Kong's mini-constitution, the city is supposed to be granted universal suffrage eventually. But more than a decade after the law took effect, Beijing remains wary that full democracy in Hong Kong could spark an outcry for similar rights on the mainland and continues to stifle reform. Hong Kong's administration, which is chosen with Beijing's blessings, has not pressed the issue, either. "I don't like the way this government is acting," Chan says. She is particularly critical of Chief Executive Donald Tsang - her onetime civil-service subordinate - who, she says...
...soon be reverberating around the world, and particularly loudly at big-box retailers like Wal-Mart in the West. That's because all those inexpensive exports gushing out of Chinese factories - the $15 sweaters, the $25 sneakers, the sub-$100 DVD players - may start getting pricier as the mainland struggles to bring its runaway economy under control. Not all economists agree it's inevitable, but some are warning that an era during which low-cost Chinese production helped to maintain unusually stable prices for manufactured goods around the world is coming to an end. This view isn't held just...
...could wind up stoking the fires of global inflation. After all, it was China's cheap laborers who turned the country into the world's factory. By one estimate, China's manufacturing unit labor cost was just 4% of that of the U.S. in 2005. Now, as the mainland economy powers ahead - GDP growth jumped by 11.9% in the second quarter - real wages of urban workers have been soaring at double-digit rates, rising 18% in the first half of this year alone, according to the government. Add in higher raw-materials prices, and manufacturers are facing increases in production...
...Administration of China (CAAC), the country's industry regulator, announced Aug. 31 that it will block the creation of any new Chinese airlines until 2010 - unless the new carrier flies the ARJ21. All of the 71 ARJ21s sold thus far have been to Chinese carriers serving the fast-growing mainland travel market. "The government still controls fleet purchases," says Richard Pinkham, an industry analyst at the Centre for Asia-Pacific Aviation, a Singapore-based consultancy. "That will provide a big boost to marketing efforts...