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According to Lord Palmerston, nations have no permanent allies or enemies, only permanent interests. That maxim contains a warning the Bush Administration should heed as it deals with the Socialist Republic of Viet...
...believe there was any tragedy in Tiananmen Square," declared Jiang. The incident, he went on, was the "unavoidable" consequence of the attempt by some demonstrators to "overthrow the socialist system." He likened media reports about the situation in Beijing to "fairy tales from the Arabian Nights...
...strong central planning that stunted the country's development before Deng came to power. Later in the week, Jiang gave a major anniversary address to top party leaders, model workers and soldiers that was larded with phrases from China's Stalinist past. "Failure to stick to the socialist road, while using the blood and sweat of laborers to fatten the capitalist class, will plunge most of the Chinese people into extreme poverty once again," he warned. Referring to sanctions imposed on China by some Western nations, he vowed never to "give up our national independence in exchange for alms...
...mind. Like the newspapers that urge "bitter struggle" against "bourgeois liberalism" while trumpeting the pleasures of disco dancing on the same page. Like the never ending loop of music in the lobby of a hotel in Sichuan province that alternates between a Rod Stewart oldie (Sailing) and a socialist goody (Without the Communist Party There Would Be No New China). Like the young man break-dancing to a blaring Madonna album amid a few hundred elderly tai chi practitioners at a Shanghai park. Like the reserve and civility evident in personal relations that rarely translate to civic responsibility. Like...
...should do. Western economists advise some breathtakingly sweeping changes: decontrol prices, end huge state subsidies, expand the private sector, open a capital market with realistic interest rates. Soviet specialists call for something more elusive: effective leadership. Says Oleg Bogomolov, director of Moscow's Institute of Economics of the World Socialist System: "To sustain perestroika, a new speedup, more radical change, is required." Gorbachev, adds Ambartsumov, "talks too much and doesn't carry through his decisions...