State needs help from Mom and Pop

Article Abstract:

Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji promised to reform the country's state-owned enterprise (SOE) system in his inaugural speech in 1998. The unemployment that would result from eliminating the inefficient SOEs would be politically unacceptable, so party officials are reluctant to take action. Privatization is ideologically unsuitable to the communist leadership, and experiments in partial privatization have proven unsuccessful. China has about 30 mil individual business households running corner shops and hairdressers, employing more than 10% of the labor force.

Economic policy, Private sector, Privatization, Privatization (Business)

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Friend and foe

Article Abstract:

A meeting held between Indian Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh and the Chinese Premier, Wen Jiabao regarding riots in China in protest at Japanese textbooks has a wider context of economic and political links with global branching. A more traditional form of power politics might emerge preventing the three countries maximizing their potential if long-standing political differences could not be resolved.

Japan, India, Indian foreign relations, Japanese foreign relations, Singh, Manmohan (Indian prime minister), Wen Jiabao

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Not winning friends

Article Abstract:

This article examines the growing conflict between China and the United States since the Hainan spy plane incident. The author maintains the Chinese people view the United States government as arrogant and unwilling to apologize for their mistakes and blames them for continually humiliating their nation.

United States, United States foreign relations, International relations, Chinese, Chinese (Asian people), Anti-Americanism, U.S. Navy Spy Plane Incident, 2001

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