From the Financial Times: China faces huge uncertainty, not least how to cope with an America less able to consume its goods, but the country, and its principal commercial city, are hugely ambitious. Shanghai wants to become a...
Read MoreThe Washington Post reports on the recent taxi strikes and other signs of increasing dissatisfaction among China’s rising middle class as the economy falters: From the far western industrial county of Yongdeng to the...
Read MoreFrom The East Asia Forum: The recent strikes of taxi drivers in some places in China is a good example.China has always put economic development and social stability as the top priority. But in the past, stability was achieved...
Read MoreTranslated by Michael Huang, from China Elections & Governance: The New Culture Movement (NCM) in the early 20th century was an important part of contemporary China’s democratic revolution against feudalism and despotism. By replacing classical Chinese with vernacular Chinese, its contribution to the spread of literacy and knowledge was beyond measure. However, advanced aspects of […]
Read MoreFrom The Financial Times: Donald Tsang , Hong Kong’s chief executive, asked Beijing Wednesday to allow his successor to be elected through more democratic means in a report that marks the first official recognition of public aspirations for faster democratic reform. The report, now pending approval by the National People’s Congress , China’s rubber-stamp parliament, […]
Read MoreFrom China Elections and Governance: The “inner-party democracy theory”, which advocates substituting general political democracy with inner-party democracy, is one of the political reform paths that attract most followers. One should not be overly optimistic if inner-party democracy is set as the priority goal of Chinese political reform, but any attempt towards constitutional democracy other […]
Read MoreFrom openDemocracy: The approach of the Chinese Communist Party’s seventeenth national congress is being accompanied by a war of words in print over the right to talk about reform. In February 2007, the Beijing-based Yanhuang Chungju (Chinese Chronicles) magazine – a journal largely dedicated to researching and revealing historical truths – published a long essay […]
Read MoreAn editorial from Caijing Magazine editor Hu Shuli: Market-oriented reform is a multi-dimensional process. In fall 2006, the Party advocated ‘advancing reform and innovation in the economic, political, cultural and social systems, and continuing to open the door to the outside world.’ This was a basic summary of the characteristics and tasks of the current […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via CNN.com: Alarmed by stubborn corruption and public unrest, China’s President Hu Jintao is steering the ruling Communist Party to reforms that will make officials more answerable. But he has resisted calls...
Read MoreFrom the Taipei Times: In the recent local elections, Taiwan’s voters have dealt the Democratic National Party (DPP) a huge loss. How can we explain this strong and relatively sudden decline in the DPP’s support among the electorate? First, in most mature democracies, voters eventually vote out the government and vote in the opposition. In […]
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