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...parallels between the first decade of nationalist rule and the China of today are striking. So much so that the question arises of whether the leadership in Beijing can avoid the pitfalls that seriously weakened the Generalissimo's regime before its eight-year war with Japan began in 1937, and before the subsequent civil war with the communists dealt it a death blow...
...Since Chiang's victory over the warlords who had carved up the country after the fall of the Manchu empire, the central government of China has been under one-party rule?first under the nationalist Kuomintang, followed by the communists. In the 1930s, as in the two decades since Deng Xiaoping opened China's door to market economics, the authorities counted on economic growth to make up for the absence of democracy and to win the allegiance of an emerging middle class. Progress was seen as a matter of technology rather than of political development?roads, railways and airlines then...
...combination of the economic carrot and the stick of repressive one-party rule proved insufficient to build lasting support for Chiang's rule. The nationalist era demonstrates how, by not involving the people in the way they are governed and by denying political pluralism, regimes easily become archaic and disconnected from their citizens, with no means of reinvigorating themselves...
...India's nationalist government finally losing patience with its Hindu extremist allies? Last Friday, Hindu hardliners staging a protest in the northern Indian town of Ayodhya found themselves under fire from an unexpected quarter: state and federal police wielding wooden lathes and batons and firing rubber bullets and tear gas. By day's end more than 1,000 Hindu activists were in custody and another 15,000 had been loaded on to buses and trains and sent away. An outraged Ashok Singhal, leader of the rally's organizer, the militant Hindu group Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), was moved to declare...
Opponents condemned Said’s nationalist political stance as extreme and anti-Israel...