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From the New York Times (link): Prime Minister Wen Jiabao said Tuesday that China’s rapid economic rise is being accompanied by a “high concentration of all kinds of acute problems,” including official corruption by some officials who “have violated the rights of the people.” Mr. Wen also said the government had “no surprise” revaluations planned […]
Read MoreFrom the Financial Times (link): China has forced one of the country’s controversial economic commentators off the air, closing his top-rating programme on the grounds that he did not meet the government’s spoken language standards for national television. Lang Xianping, who is also known as Larry Lang, recorded his last programme at the end of […]
Read MoreIn Spiegel Online (link), Andrea Lorenz interviews Chinese economist and reformist Chi Fulin: SPIEGEL: The gap between the rich and the poor is wider than ever, and party leader and head of state Hu Jintao called for the building of a harmonious society. How does he expect such a society to function? Chi: Economic development […]
Read MoreFrom the South China Morning Post, via A Glimpse of the World blog (link): “Gangsters and police belong to the same family.” For hundreds of years, mainlanders have used this popular idiom to illustrate rampant government corruption and blatant collusion between law enforcers and criminals. The phenomena disappeared after Mao Zedong founded the People’s Republic […]
Read MoreFrom the AP, via the International Herald Tribune (link): The top advisory body to China’s Parliament promised Monday to promote an official system of virtues conceived by President Hu Jintao that calls for honesty and plain living, amid discontent over corruption and a growing gap between rich and poor. A resolution passed by the Chinese […]
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