China has released a white paper on the nation's democratic model. It gives details on how whole-process people's democracy works in the country. Xia Lu, an associate professor at the School of Marxism Studies at Renmin University of China explains what that means....
“The ‘democratic spirit’… [or the campaign to make everyone the same] leads to a nation without great [people], a nation mainly of subliterates, full of the cocksureness which flattery breeds on ignorance, and quick to snarl or whimper at the first hint of criticism.”– C. S. Le...
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Much of it sought to undermine faith in the incumbent Democratic Progressive Party and cast it as belligerent and likely to start a war that Taiwan can’t win. Other narratives targeted U.S. support for Taiwan, arguing that America was an untrustworthy partner only interested in Taiwan...
The system seems to work in theory, but how did communism work in practice? Read on to learn about the rise of the first communist nation. Communism-related Terms Socialism: A system that advocates the state's ownership of land, industry and capital. Wondering what the difference is between...
I read Joe Studwell’s How Asia Works because it claimed to answer two of the greatest questions in development economics: How did countries like Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, and China achieve sustained, high growth and turn into development success stories? And why have so few other countries...
s team did the same with the other cases that rolled in over the next few days—an elderly man returning from Washington state with symptoms, a couple from Indiana who had become sick while vacationing on Kauai, a skier back from the slopes of Colorado, an Air Canada flight attendant ...
The six non-UN states with partial recognition areTaiwan,Kosovo,South Ossetia, Abkhazia,Northern Cyprus, and Western Sahara'sSahrawi Arab Democratic Republic. All of these are claimed by other countries, but aren't actually controlled by them - or at least parts of them aren't. The number ...
By con- trast, 59% of East Asia & the Pacific's flows were intra-regional, but the average distance traversed was 6,392 km. 39 Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Cambodia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Viet Nam. 40 See https://...
a Pandora’s Box of challenges that might push voters away from digital platforms entirely. In other words, as our channels become so full of sewage, in effect – deliberately or cumulatively – we may stop swimming in them to protect our mental health, relationships, and democratic processes....