Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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China will certainly be judged on how it deals with Hong Kong's political aspirations. But important as those are, Hong Kong's survival and well-being depend more on how well Beijing lives up to the broad Western values guaranteed by the Basic Law, a kind of miniconstitution it approved along with Britain in April 1990. China's leaders put their names to a document maintaining the rule of law, an independent judiciary, civil liberties including the right to peaceful protest, a free press, continuation of the capitalist system, a separate identity in international economic bodies, local control over...
According to Professor of Economics Eric S. Maskin, Whinston has said that he will be "visiting North- western next year" but has made no decision about remaining there...
...democracy activists are staking out the Web as the only place where they may be able to elude China's restrictions on free speech, China is trying to build a virtual Great Wall around the tiny city to protect Chinese Internet users (100,000 so far) from unregulated western communication. Hoping to offer the world "a porthole through which concerned observers . . . can view the significant period in Hong Kong history," one Hong Kong group last week launched an online weekly called The Voice of Democracy. Its mission: to provide a platform for criticism of the incoming government. Editor-in-Chief...
...vote may mark a return to the horrific pre-ban poaching levels that saw ivory hunters slaughtering nearly 70,000 African elephants each year. Officials in Zimbabwe, Namibia and Botswana, where 30 percent of Africa's estimated 580,000 elephants live, scoff that such an attitude reeks of Western "environmental colonialism." While they insist that the tusks to be sold are already stockpiled, any self-respecting elephant had better head for the hills once the poachers find out that ivory is being shipped once more...
...West has counted on Croatia for stability in the region, so it's not going to blame it now for an internal lack of democracy and human rights." With more than 90 percent of the total count in, Croatiannationalist strongman President Franjo Tudjman has won an easy victory, sidestepping Western media reports that incomplete voter lists had allowed only 10 percent of the country's thousands of ethnic Serbs to have a voice at the polls. Buoyed by recent U.S. approval of a $13 million loan, Tudjman took a tough line toward the U.S. during his campaign, calling Western criticism...