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As expected, Beijing's authoritarian one-party regime has failed to honor its pledge to investigate the Linyi, Shandong government functionaries who were illegally holding Chen Guangcheng and his family under house arrest and occasionally administering beatings and other forms of torture and cruelty. Instead of moving in the direction of Thein Sein in Burma, Xi Jinping's first actions have been aggressive threats of military interference in other countries shipping and fishing activities in the seas far to the south of Hainan Island (called the Eastern Sea in Vietnam, and the South Sea in China). So it would seem that Xi Jinping is moving in an ultr-nationalistic, militaristic direction, not in a direction of reform and openness. He thinks it doesn't matter that China's populace increasingly does not see itself as passive imperial subjects waiting for a good emperor or parent-like official to order them what to do. The world has changed, Mr. Xi.
Dec 05, 2012 12:14 PM
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