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...million unemployed pulling at him, a sharp decline in exports and foreign investment, a change-resistant culture of corruption, and an unfriendly economic environment in the rest of Asia, Zhu has been forced to reverse or put on hold all his key reform policies. Mounting reports of labor unrest around the country terrified his comrades in the leadership, whose fear of luan--chaos--approaches the phobic. "With no functioning social-welfare net," argues a Chinese economist, Zhu's reforms were "suicidal...
...Mecca, base their legitimacy on their direct lineage to the Prophet Muhammad. Hassan's life-style has facilitated amicable relations with the Muslim Brotherhood, the most important opposition faction in Jordan. He was also instrumental in repairing ties with Iran, strained over charges that Tehran was fomenting Islamic unrest in Jordan...
...Yeah, definitely. That's one of the points of the book: when there is an absence of love, the void is filled by bitterness, manipulation, anger and resentment and unrest...
...Mahathir had just fired him, he probably would have prevailed," says TIME senior foreign correspondent Johanna McGeary. "Instead, he's made a martyr of him." McGeary points out that it was similar social unrest that toppled President Suharto in Indonesia. Mahathir said at the time that the IMF was responsible for that uprising. This time, he's got no one to blame but himself...
...Marxist alumni are eerie. China, eight times as populous as Russia and with an economy that last year expanded 20 times as fast as Russia's, suffers many of the same infirmities. Its banking system is just as rotten, corruption flourishes beyond the central government's control, labor unrest is widespread, a budget deficit is growing, taxes can't be collected, and an inefficient network of state enterprises still hamstrings a full transition to the free market...