Written by lookingbeyondbordersNovember 6, 2012

Xi Climbs to Power Mixing Father’s Capitalism With Mao Communism

Days after Xi Jinping became chief in 2002 of Zhejiang, China’s hotbed of private enterprise, he set out on a tour of the province. His message: more capitalism. Promoted five years later to the party’s top policy making body in Beijing, and heir-apparent to President Hu Jintao, Xi lectured students at the Communist Party’s main school, by the […]

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Written by lookingbeyondbordersOctober 31, 2012October 31, 2012

Protests in China Get a Boost From Social Media

“We want to survive,” read signs carried by the hundreds of protestors who thronged the streets of Ningbo, a southeastern Chinese coastal city, from Friday through Sunday. Their demand: that the local government scrap plans for an $8.9 billion expansion of a petrochemical plant to be operated by a subsidiary of state-run oil giant Sinopec. By Sunday […]

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Xi Climbs to Power Mixing Father’s Capitalism With Mao Communism

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