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China risks ‘systemic crisis’ without democratization, says influential insider
WikimediaCreative Commons One of China’s most prominent economists is warning that the country will face a major crisis unless economic reforms are accompanied by political liberalization, Chris...
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China’s authoritarian capitalist experiment: ‘system is over if they reform,...
New State Security Committee by Badiucao for China Digital Times: China’s new national security committee, announced at the conclusion of this week’s ruling Communist Party plenum, will differ from its...
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Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has jailed 100 ‘bourgeois’ businessmen on grounds of alleged economic sabotage. But the man deemed public enemy No. 1 in the regime’s “economic war” blames its...
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China: liberalizing, collapsing or neither?
Ever since 1989, mainstream Western opinions about China have been dominated by two divergent theories with opposite policy prescriptions, writes political scientist Eric Li: One is the “imminent...
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Eastern Europe ‘stuck in transition’? EBRD warns of wealth gap, democratic...
East European and former Soviet states risk never closing the income gap with advanced democracies unless they relaunch structural reforms, a report warned today. The region is backsliding from a...
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Burma’s transition can ‘transform Asia’
The challenges facing Burma/Myanmar’s political transition are Herculean, says a leading analyst. But success “will be a game-changer,” not only for the country but for the Asian continent, Thant...
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Why Russia Stagnates
Moscow Times The Kremlin’s two key goals are to maintain political power and to enrich the ruling elite. At best, economic growth is the third-ranking goal, and it contradicts the two primary aims....
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China’s ruling party ‘must pull off a mix of Mao and markets’
The recent landmark plenum of China’s ruling Communist party sets out a bold agenda and makes clear who is in charge, argues Robert Zoellick, a former World Bank president, US trade representative and...
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Economy priority for Tunisians, says poll – still prefer unstable democracy...
Most Tunisians believe their economic situation is worse than ever, fear that their country is headed in the wrong direction, but still prefer unstable democracy over authoritarianism, a new survey...
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China’s reforms – easier said than done
As U.S. Vice President Joe Biden visits Asia amid growing tensions between Beijing and Tokyo, another possibly more important development in underway in China, argues Claremont University’s Minxin Pei....
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