Hungry people are not likely to have the energy to overthrow a regime, so don't worry about them. Disappointed coalition members in contrast, can defect, leave in deep trouble.展开全文 原微博
They may also prove to be dismal failures, as was true for Kwame Nkrumah's civic-minded industrial program in Ghana or MZD's Great Leap Forward, which turned out to be a great leap backwards for China.展开全文 原微博
even though these benefits come at the expense of the larger taxpaying public or millions of small shareholders. Small coalitions encourage stable, corrupt, private-goods-oriented regimes.展开全文 原微博
women and girls were sold into “domestic service, concubinage, or prostitution”. An additional concern was that the children of Chinese couples would become U.S. citizens under the Fourteenth Amendment and their cultural practices would become a part of American democracy.展开全文 原微博
measures to achieve key environmental goals run into very real economic barriers backed by powerful stakeholders. Take coal for instance. China currently derives 70% of its electricity from coal. Coal-fired electricity plants are a big source of air pollution,展开全文 原微博
On the food safety front, Chinese consumers scarred by the melamine poisoned milk and tainted meat scandals of the past few years are demanding better quality controls. They are alert, too, to any disease outbreaks in China's vast stock of pigs and chickens.展开全文 原微博
China has faced existential challenges before. Fifty years ago, it emerged from the most catastrophic famine in its history, when drought, floods and Mao Zedong's disastrous Great Leap Forward experiment in agrarian collectivization展开全文 原微博
Beijing plans to raise the government spending on social welfare programs by two percentage points within next five years, from 12% to 14%. The comparable number in the United States is 37%.展开全文 原微博
In the US, the priority is to avoid excessive fiscal consolidation in the short term, promptly raise the debt ceiling, and agree on a credible medium-term fiscal consolidation plan, focused on entitlement and tax reform.展开全文 原微博
11, Japan shall be permitted to maintain such industries as will sustain her economy and permit the exaction of just reparations in kind, but not those which would enable her to re-arm for war.展开全文 原微博
