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...country, China's legal system is in transition, buffeted by social changes sweeping the nation as it races toward economic modernity. There are many other areas of grave concern for Beijing: a ravaged environment, an inadequate health-care system, pervasive corruption and a widening chasm between the urban rich and rural poor, to name a few. But none is so visible a symbol of the dilemmas Beijing faces in coping with rapid change while at the same time preserving the country's tenuous social order-and the Communist Party's grasp on political power-as the judicial and legal system...
...Chinese have long had to accept that the courts offered little recourse from flawed decisions. But economic development is bringing pressure for change. The country's emerging urban élite now see protecting their individual rights as a No. 1 priority. "The rising middle class likes predictability and security, and that's what the law does," says Nicholas Bequelin of Human Rights Watch, adding that the Communist Party recognizes that its future hangs on being able to accommodate such demands. "The Party is highly adaptable so long as nothing threatens their basic control...
...decade, second in Asia only to China's, and this year's entry into the World Trade Organization has touched off a flood of foreign investment. A 2006 Gallup International survey called Vietnam the world's most optimistic country for the fourth year in a row, with 94% of urban residents predicting life would improve in 2007. As long as the government keeps delivering healthy economic growth, says Carl Thayer, a political scientist at Australia's National Defence Academy who has studied the country for more than 30 years, "there's not going to be a revolt from below...
Seidel, who has a masters degree in urban planning from the Graduate School of Design, added that he also hopes to push environmental concerns on the council, and that this is one area where Cambridge should set an example...
...March Sinn Fein became part of the new Northern Ireland government. The party has also cleverly expanded in the southern part of Ireland by mining latent or marginalized voters - young people, urban poor, environmentalists, and anti-war campaigners. If they can become the first party to be in both of Ireland's governments, they'll be in a position to harmonize policies and blur the border between the two parts of the island. They'll also demand that Ahern deliver a policy paper on making Irish unity a practical reality...