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Thu, March 4, 2021 | 16:26
Maintaining stability
“Stability is of overriding importance” was a phrase used by Deng Xiaoping many times in the aftermath of the Tiananmen Square military crackdown in 1989. The then paramount leader felt that China’s top priority was economic development, and that nothing should be allowed to get in the way.
2012-06-26 17:04
Cross-strait relations
All signs are that Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou’s second term, which began May 20, will continue to see a strengthening of cross-strait economic relations but political talks between the two sides, even if they are held, are unlikely to be productive.
2012-06-10 16:04
Checks and balances
The appearance in the Hong Kong legislature of filibustering ― the practice of allowing one or more members to delay or prevent a vote on a proposal by limitless speechifying ― signals the danger that the former British colony may embrace extreme forms of democracy without the rules and regulations that Western parliaments have developed.
2012-05-27 15:31
Human rights in China following Chen saga
Without saying so publicly, the Chinese government has surprisingly agreed to almost all requests made by blind legal activist Chen Guangcheng after he escaped from his home in Linyi, in Shandong province, to the American Embassy in Beijing.
2012-05-11 16:41
North Korea and UN resolutions
On April 15, two days after North Korea defied international opinion and fired a three-stage rocket, it held a massive military parade in Pyongyang to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of its founder, Kim Il-sung.
2012-04-27 17:05
Trilateral discussions
In the old days, when Japan was the world’s second largest economy, American officials used to describe the U.S.-Japan relationship as “the most important bilateral relationship in the world, bar none.” Nowadays such words, if spoken, refer to China, not Japan.
2012-04-11 16:59
Independent role for lawyers in China
On March 5, the day the 2012 session of China’s National People’s Congress opened, Premier Wen Jiabao promised to enforce the law “in both letter and spirit, respect and uphold the sanctity of the Constitution and laws, and govern in strict accordance with the laws.”
2012-04-08 16:28
Nationality Law in Hong Kong
At the opening last week of the annual session of the National People’s Congress (NPC), China’s parliament, a retired English professor, Wu Qing, told a Hong Kong television interviewer that the congress is described in the Chinese Constitution as “the highest organ of state power.”
2012-03-14 16:53
Match words with actions
An inaugural “Friends of Syria” meeting last week, attended by more than 70 countries, called for additional economic sanctions against Syria and demanded that the regime there stop all acts of violence.
2012-02-29 17:13
More assertive China
Beijing’s veto, along with that of Moscow, of a U.N. Security Council resolution on Syria reflects a more assertive China in contrast with an earlier period in which the Chinese would simply go along with the majority by abstaining.
2012-02-19 15:33
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