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...countryside - in fact, the view through the windows is an unsettling inversion of what the term normally evokes. Giant fissures sunder the hills and there are yawning voids where roads should be. Broad swaths of boulders and debris remain on the mountain slopes just as violent landslides deposited them on that terrible afternoon nearly seven months ago. Down in a flooded valley, bare and broken tree trunks poke through the water like the spars of a vanquished armada, and over everything hangs the cold, the damp...
...news from China in recent weeks has been dire. Violent strikes and protests are reported almost daily. Millions of workers are out of jobs. Economic indicators presage more gloom, with electricity production for industry falling 4% in October, the first time it has declined in a decade. So is China - the "fragile superpower," as historian Susan Shirk memorably termed it - about to experience the one thing its leaders have feared for years: a so-called hard landing of its economy that could spark widespread social unrest...
...China - the "fragile superpower" as one historian memorably called it - about to experience the one thing its leaders and many analysts and academics outside the country have feared for years: a violent contraction in its economy that some fear could spark widespread social unrest among its billion inhabitants? (See pictures of the global financial crisis...
...news from China in recent weeks has been dire. Strikes and protests - some of them violent and involving as many as ten thousand people - are reported almost daily. Millions of workers are being thrown out of their jobs, and economic indicators seem to presage more gloom, with electricity production for industry falling 4% in October, the first time it has declined in a decade. Even the country's seemingly insatiable thirst for oil to fuel its decades' long boom seems to be fading: China's national oil company said late in November that demand had declined "sharply" in recent months...
...Caracas, for example, Chávez has poured billions of dollars from his petro windfalls into admirable social projects for the long-neglected barrios. Yet those slums are reminders of his failure to stem plagues like violent crime (Caracas has about 40 murders a weekend), corruption and insufficient garbage collection. "It should make Chávez realize that instead of traveling the globe promoting socialism, he needs to address basic issues back home," says Chávez biographer Bart Jones, author of Hugo...