{"id":6499,"date":"2006-03-11T08:21:55","date_gmt":"2006-03-11T15:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2006\/03\/11\/sharp-debate-erupts-in-china-over-socialism-and-capitalism-joseph-kahn\/"},"modified":"2006-03-11T08:21:55","modified_gmt":"2006-03-11T15:21:55","slug":"sharp-debate-erupts-in-china-over-socialism-and-capitalism-joseph-kahn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2006\/03\/sharp-debate-erupts-in-china-over-socialism-and-capitalism-joseph-kahn\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharp Debate Erupts in China Over Socialism and Capitalism – Joseph Kahn"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n<\/a> From T<\/span>he New York Times (link):<\/a>\n<\/p>\n \nFor the first time in perhaps a decade, the National People’s Congress, the Communist Party-run legislature now convened in its annual two-week session, is consumed with an ideological debate over socialism and capitalism that many assumed had been buried by China’s long streak of fast economic growth.<\/p>\n The controversy has forced the government to shelve a draft law to protect property rights that had been expected to win pro forma passage and highlighted the resurgent influence of a small but vocal group of socialist-leaning scholars and policy advisers. These old-style leftist thinkers have used China’s rising income gap and increasing social unrest to raise doubts about what they see as the country’s headlong pursuit of private wealth and market-driven economic development.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" From The New York Times (link): For the first time in perhaps a decade, the National People’s Congress, the Communist Party-run legislature now convened in its annual two-week session, is consumed with an ideological debate over socialism and capitalism that many assumed had been buried by China’s long streak of fast economic growth. The controversy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2,100,38,1051],"tags":[2772],"class_list":["post-6499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-politics","category-the-great-divide","category-top-article","tag-npc-2006","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"\n