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…students to study in its universities. Yet the rise of China has also led to deep fears. China continues to be run by a communist party that has no desire to embrace liberal democracy. China has displayed a belligerent side in some of its dealings with Japan and some members of t...

…diction and do you agree? RLK: The public stance of China has to be strong. The legitimacy of the government and of the Communist Party is based on two primary factors. One is the economic development. RLK: China is celebrating this year 40 years of reform and opening up really h...

…ice, participate in annual media training conferences in China, have at times employed senior staff affiliated with the Communist Party, and have hosted CCP propaganda officials. CCP officials have given direct editorial instructions to Chinese- language media in New Zealand as p...

…r political affiliations within the party | “Ad which internally are important. Two are from Shanghai, two are from the Communist Youth League - one is actually , from Shanghai and the Youth League as well but he’s really from Shanghai - two have a long relationship with General...

…port detailing connections between one of China’s richest men and members of the Politburo—the top organ in the Chinese Communist Party, when Bloomberg spiked the story. The outlet’s editor in chief, Matthew Winkler, was quoted on a conference call likening the decision to censor...

…erican faculty on American campuses. American universities that host events deemed politically offensive by the Chinese Communist Party and government have been subject to increasing pressure, and sometimes even to retaliation, by diplomats in the Chinese embassy and its six cons...

…antisecrecy group WikiLeaks that mentioned the dispute. [*] Mr. Nazarbayev, 70, [*]a former steel worker and Soviet-era Communist Party leader, has been in power for two decades, presiding over Central Asia's most vibrant economy. Human rights activists, however, have long accuse...

…d in espionage. The remaining three, Harold M. Koch, a Catholic priest protest- ing the Vietnam War; Arnold Lockshin, a Communist Party organizer; and Lee Harvey Oswald, a U.S. marine, defected for idealistic principles. All were given asylum, and two, Webster and Oswald, redefec...

…illance cameras unusually - even for Beijing - dense. The neighborhood is home to many of the last of the generation of Communist Party cadres who joined and supported its rise decades ago. Several years ago, I found myself settled into one of them for an afternoon tea with Huang...

…. Gorbachov recognized us (I had met him in Moscow during one of my human rights trips while he was the Chairman of the Communist Party and the head of state). He pointed at me and said to Sharanksy: “He’s a good lawyer, but I’m an even better lawyer.” Sharansky replied, “But he...

… - all of these have encouraged a searching exploration. The demands of domestic politics, the instincts of the Chinese Communist Party and the inevitable practical questions of security and reform all produce sensible questions. China needs oil, for instance. Must she project po...

…e, influence operations in New Zealand have increased markedly since Xi Jinping became general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party. The Chinese government considers New Zealand an “exemplar of how it would like its relations to be with other states.”* One unnamed Chinese dip...

…ic life. The message from China to US universities is clear: Do not transgress the political no-go zones of the Chinese Communist Party or government, or you will pay a price. Sometimes the pressure is overt; other times it is more subtle and indirect, but no less alarming. Some...

…ideals until a painful strike in California caused him to lose faith in the politics of the left. Gorbachev, a lifelong Communist, was desperate to reform the Soviet economy and make it more competitive. He, also, had come to see the hypocrisies that could emerge in far left-wing...

… human-rights activists and intimidation of political opponents, which included character assassination. The Vietnamese Communist leadership has lately overseen dynamic economic growth, with, again, the acceleration of personal freedoms, even as corruption and inequalities remain...