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...Wang started. And Shenzhen, that sleepy town where Wang, 54, made his base? It's a booming metropolis of 12 million people--one of dozens of cities that have sprouted across the nation seemingly overnight. "You blink in China, and another building goes up," says Wang. --By Hannah Beech/ Shanghai, with reporting by Bu Hua/ Shenzhen...
...sitting in a Starbucks coffee shop in the toniest neighborhood in Shanghai, around the corner from the Louis Vuitton store, and Wang Ling is getting steamed up over being evicted from her home. "They're liars," she says, pulling out official documents. "They're not going according to government regulations!" The Wangs got caught up in the dealings of a shady property tycoon who is serving three years in jail for stock manipulation--but not before they and thousands of others were tossed out of their homes to make way for the tycoon's now deferred project. They allege...
China's leaders, ever conscious of history, argue that stability must come first. "If you haven't been through the Cultural Revolution, you don't know what human rights means," says Sun Chao, a Shanghai official who is pushing for transparent government. "In my compound, people were jumping off the rooftops." Given that legacy, Sun goes on, "China is developing human rights faster than any country in the world." Taiwan and South Korea, of course, survived for decades as dictatorships even as they opened up their economies. But as more Chinese like Wang start demanding their rights, the government...
...Skeptics have a ready answer: theft of intellectual property. Innovation depends on the value of ideas being protected, so the entrepreneur with a technological breakthrough reaps the rewards--not "six guys down the street who've stolen it," says Jim Hemerling, senior vice president of Boston Consulting Group in Shanghai. In the past two years, companies from General Motors to Sony to Cisco have complained about intellectual-property theft. China's State Intellectual Property Office invalidated Pfizer's patent protection on Viagra last summer, arguing that the drug failed to fulfill the novelty requirement under Chinese law. Like many other...
...Setting the Record Straight One is Left Our Milestone on the death of radical Maoist Zhang Chunqiao [May 23] said in error that he was "the last surviving member of China's notorious Gang of Four." There is still one remaining member, Yao Wenyuan, who is living in Shanghai...