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...rough estimate, this was the eighth time in four weeks that taxi drivers around the nation had slammed on their brakes, making the rolling strikes the longest sustained chain reaction of labor unrest in the history of the People's Republic. The strikes are emerging as a test case of a new policy of information control and management instituted by President Hu Jintao that shuns the authorities' traditional emphasis on suppressing bad news altogether and stresses instead using official media to attempt to control how events like strikes, protests and even natural disasters are reported in China. The complex methods...
...arms sale to the Taiwanese, a much more troublesome issue in the eyes of China's government. That deal prompted Beijing to curb, but not cut, military contacts with Washington and brush off some arms-proliferation talks. All in all, the Chinese response amounted to a diplomatic harrumph - the reaction China will probably offer if the Uighurs go free in the United States...
...While Ruhfel acknowledged that Thoreau’s historical stature has contributed to the public reaction to their work, he maintains that the scientific merit of the study does not depend on the origin of the data...
...Center for European Policy Studies in Brussels. "By contrast, the $2 trillion to $2.2 trillion used to keep Europe's financial sector from collapsing represents around 17% of E.U. GNP. That, too, was promised by national governments but was the result of more coordinated and better funded reaction to crisis...
...reaction to the plan was swift - and far from the general applause Britain's leaders received for their bank-bailout plans just six weeks ago. "A general decrease in value-added tax is perhaps the answer for some countries, but for Germany and France it is not," said German Chancellor Angela Merkel, following a meeting with French President Nicolas Sarkozy on a common European response to the economic downturn. Asked Sarkozy: "Should we use up our available room for maneuver on reducing prices when prices are already falling...