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...China's Future David Shambaugh paints a rosy picture as the People's Republic of China turns 60 [Sept. 28]. Let's not forget that China is a communist dictatorship with a one-party system (hence no meaningful opposition), a rubber-stamp congress and a judiciary under the control of the Party. Human rights are routinely trampled on, even though they are written into the constitution; dissidents are jailed for long periods of time. The Chinese government did not hesitate to send tanks against its own people in 1989, and we have seen what the government can do against...
...David Shambaugh paints a rosy picture as the People's Republic of China turns 60 [Sept. 28]. Let's not forget that China is a communist dictatorship with a one-party system, a rubber-stamp congress and a judiciary under the control of the Party. Human rights are routinely trampled, even though they are written into the constitution; dissidents are jailed for long periods of time. The Chinese government did not hesitate to send tanks against its own people in 1989, and we have seen what the government can do against the Tibetans and the Uighurs when they dare rise...
...Shambaugh is professor and director of the China Policy Program at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and currently a visiting scholar at the China Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing. His latest book is China's Communist Party: Atrophy and Adaptation...
...female self-sabotage the reason women hold only 2.6% of FORTUNE 500 CEO positions? You'd think so, to read this sincere but Pollyannaish book. Shambaugh argues that self-defeating behaviors like allowing work to crowd out family and friends and failing to assert oneself are holding women back. "Remember," declares the author, a Washington human-resources consultant, "once women free themselves from the sticky floors, there is no glass ceiling. Instead, the sky is the limit!" If only it were that easy...
...Shambaugh is Mary Poppins, then Klein is Scrooge. Examining the same evidence of inequities against women, as well as against minorities and gays, Klein's politically correct treatise comes to a diametrically opposite conclusion. Her data essentially find a malign plot by those in power. For many in those oppressed groups, she maintains, work "is a constantly dripping pipe of daily indignities that cumulatively lead to feelings of isolation and distrust--and ultimately to extraordinarily high rates of voluntary turnover." It's hard not to conclude that the truth falls somewhere between the poles these two books represent...