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...decided to call snap elections. Nevertheless, there are two possible outcomes. Either Schröder will be re-elected, or he will discover, like King Canute, that even he cannot turn back an incoming tide. Joshua Selig Dorset, England Of Freedom and Fear In Time's interview with former soviet dissident Natan Sharansky [June 6], he criticized Amnesty International for lacking "moral clarity" and not differentiating between human-rights abuses committed by dictatorial "fear societies" and those carried out by democratic "free societies." Sharansky implied that the latter are more tolerable, but the distinction is meaningless to the victims. When...
That is not your usual local Chinese politics. Sun, 49, with impeccable English and a press-the-flesh attitude, represents a new crop of Chinese leaders who are different from the previous, Soviet-trained generation, which issued edicts from behind a bamboo curtain. Although Sun and his brethren are hardly harbingers of a democratic revolution, they are aware that an increasingly economically savvy populace will demand more accountability. Hence Sun's pledge that his budgets will undergo an anti-corruption audit and his proud declaration that he has personally answered 10,000 e-mails from the public since taking office...
...migration, pollution, corruption-and its deepest ambitions: to be modern, prosperous and globally respected. Huang, 40, is a new kind of bureaucrat. The English-speaking architect, trained in Belgium, Germany and China, is not a Communist Party member. She is striving "to bring fresh air" to China's musty, Soviet-style planning dogmas, which have left much of the capital grim, dusty and clogged with traffic. Huang argues for more attention to how humans actually live, what makes sense for the environment and how to adapt to China's racing real estate market...
...speeches to the party faithful, Hu has said Western democracy is a "blind alley" for China, and he has excoriated the path to reform, with all its attendant chaos, taken in the Soviet Union by Mikhail Gorbachev. Hu's key policy initiative so far has been to strengthen, not weaken, the role of the Communist Party in Chinese life. "They believe the party is the only way that China can maintain political stability," says a China watcher in the U.S. government. "Political institutions outside the party are not to be trusted." In essence, the thinking goes, party discipline guarantees stability...
...TIME's Interview with former Soviet dissident Natan Sharansky [June 6], he criticized Amnesty International for lacking "moral clarity" and not differentiating between human-rights abuses committed by dictatorial "fear societies" and those carried out by democratic "free societies." Sharansky implied that the latter are more tolerable, but the distinction is meaningless to the victims. When asked about Israel's abuses of Palestinians' human rights, Sharansky accused Amnesty International of ignoring violations by terrorist organizations. Well, two wrongs don't make a right...