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...what explains the furor? The ferocity with which the protesters turn on anybody who disagrees with them reminds some older Chinese of the dark days of Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution, which convulsed China from 1966 to '76. Today's protesters have one thing in common with Mao's revolutionaries: years of indoctrination in a highly nationalistic--some would say xenophobic--credo that imagines a hostile and perfidious world determined to undermine China. "Maybe kids today know more about computers, about the Internet," says Dai Qing, an environmental activist who was imprisoned after the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, "but when...
...described as a socialist Disneyland. Residents own shares and earn bonuses pegged to performance, but they must put 95% of their dividend and 80% of their bonus back into the town. This leaves plenty of cash for pet projects. In the village's central plaza oversized statues of Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping gaze out at replicas of the U.S Capitol Building and France's Arc du Triomphe. Nearby, the world's largest copper bell tolls for good luck...
...Then, when the reaction did come, it was straight out of the standard communist playbook, phrased in language reminiscent of the worst excesses of Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution. The violence was blamed on that "jackal dressed in monks' robes," as one official described Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama. Another official said the "Dalai clique" had organized suicide squads as part of its "sinister aim of splitting China." Thousands of paramilitary troops were rushed into Tibet and the extensive ethnically Tibetan regions of China. Journalists were barred from entry and the few already inside troubled areas were...
...main plank of Ma's campaign platform is to improve ties with Taiwan's chief rival, China. The two separated in 1949 after Mao Zedong's Communists were victorious in a civil war with the KMT, which fled to the island of Taiwan and set up its own government. Beijing and Taipei have engaged in a military standoff ever since and the heavily armed strait that separates them remains one of Asia's hottest potential flashpoints. China still sees Taiwan as a runaway province and claims sovereignty over the island to this...
...when he was just 7. He was 11 when violent fighting broke out around him in Lhasa, and by the time he was 15-an age when most of us are stumbling through high school-he was the full-time political leader of his people, having to negotiate against Mao Zedong. After he fled Tibet at age 23, when Chinese pressure on Lhasa seemed certain to provoke widespread violence, he had to remake an entire ancient culture in exile...