Results for “Communist Party of China”

…to start their careers from scratch trying to embrace entrepreneurship – something that used to be condemned during the communist regime. In 1998, Russia experienced one of the worst financial crises in its history, resulting in our government defaulting on its debt. The situatio...

…hin the international system at the time. The PLO had been financially dependent on the states of the Arab Gulf and the Communist bloc. The collapse of the Soviet Union and Arafat’s support of Saddam Hussein during the Gulf War of 1991 resulted in the collapse of funding for the...

…son. I had just appeared on a panel with Vaclav Havel and with Natan Sharansky, both of whom who had been imprisoned by Communist regimes, and both of whose cases I had worked on as a defense attorney. After the completion of the panel, in a remarkable turn of fate, the four of u...

…me independent, under the nationalist general Josef Pilsuldski. The Godins had a decision to make: either return to now-Communist Russia or stay in the new Polish state, though without citizenship because they had not been born there. No doubt finding comfort, community and a sen...

…ported it to my mother. She was convinced that my life was over, my career was ruined and that my willingness to sign a communist-inspired petition would become part of my permanent record. (Was there ever really a permanent record? It was certainly drummed into me for years that...

…hat Area 51 in New Mexico is home to extra-terrestrial technology under government auspices; that President Obama is "a communist Muslim from Kenya." Such theories are meant to show that suspicious minds leap to absurd conclusions. These are chosen because there is no evidence to...

…nstitutional protection by characterizing it as “Fascist propaganda.” (The Fascists, not surprisingly, used to call it “Communist propaganda.”) All propaganda is within the central core of the First Amendment. Nor did I dispute the claim that some pornography may contribute to an...

…nto the unwritten parts of the agreement that caused Stalin to forcibly repatriate a group of German dissidents, mostly Communists, who had sought refuge in the Soviet Union. Both the history manual and the political leadership justify the transformation of postwar Eastern Europ...

…me independent, under the nationalist general Josef Pilsuldski. The Godins had a decision to make: either return to now-Communist Russia or stay in the new Polish state, though without citizenship because they had not been born there. No doubt finding comfort, community and a sen...

…o destroy the planet was colored still by fresh memories of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It was charged too with the fear of communist expansion, not an unreasonable worry for Americans who had just fought a world war against two other, dangerously totalitarian forces. A cold fear lin...

…n end up with a crack in his values, a move from aspiring middle class member to who knows what: nationalist, inventor, communist, bitcoin banker. “I had no idea my doctor/aircraft carrier /phone/hedge fund could do that!” is our common sort of surprise. Contagions, avalanches, t...

…e agents, including Sidney Reilly and Boris Savinkov, were arrested, and their networks were eliminated. Instead of the Communist regime col- lapsing, as the Trust had predicted, it consolidated its power and © wiped out all the dissident groups. Finally, in 1929, the Trust was...

BREAKING DOWN DEMOCRACY: Goals, Strategies, and Methods of Modern Authoritarians tions of regimes that have been sullied by the jailing of dissidents or opposition leaders, the shuttering of media generally because of other strategic concerns or simple neglect, not because lobb...

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Dissenting Opinion SUSAN SHIRK Although I have no problem with the factual research that has gone into specific sections of the report, I respectfully dissent from what I see as the report’s overall inflated assessment of the current threat of Chinese influence seeking on the U...