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For months, European leaders and International Monetary Fund officials have been hoping that China would lend a hand to save the euro.
Having practiced long-term detentions without charge, trial, or access to family or counsel; having sexually humiliated and tortured prisoners, some of them to death; and having failed to hold accountable any of the high-level officials responsible for the policies that led to those crimes, the US is now seen as a hypocrite when it calls on other governments not to engage in such abuses.
Analysts kept waiting for Chinese officials to salvage capitalism by spelling out a plan to save its economy first.
Many officials (and the analysts and advisers who support them) assumed that this magic number represents the minimum rate needed to provide jobs to workers and managers and absorb the more than six million new graduates who spill out of China’s campuses each year in search of employment.
The government’s renewed focus on such a target is thus another indication that the global economic crisis has strengthened those Chinese officials and intellectuals who advocate a socialist system.
What the figure of 8% signals to provincial officials and industrial managers is that the emerging promise of green GDP – wherein a local government had to show not only growth, but also clean and energy-efficient growth – has been abandoned.
Few Party officials really wanted to be troubled by the complexities of such calculations anyway, but either abided by them or paid them lip service, for the sake of maintaining patronage and seeking promotion.
But the funding for expanding these efforts will rest largely on provincial officials, who will be reluctant to compel local cadres to disrupt production and lay off even more workers.
This retreat also illustrates how little consensus there is among high-level government officials for making China green.
In Europe, officials will continue their struggle to restore confidence in the eurozone.
In the Middle East, US and European officials will continue to resist deeper involvement in regional turmoil this year, leaving local powers – Turkey, Iran, and Saudi Arabia – to vie for influence.
US officials have reason to believe that, over time, they will be able to worry less about the region and its problems.
The two sides were never in danger of going to war, but Chinese officials allowed nationalist protests to develop into boycotts of Japanese products and acts of vandalism against Japanese companies.
When the United States declared war against terrorism, Bush administration officials characterized Indonesia as a strategic partner in the struggle against terrorism.
British economist Willem Buiter has bluntly accused central banks and treasury officials of “regulatory capture” by the financial sector, particularly in the US.
This is a strong charge, especially given the huge uncertainties that central banks and treasury officials have been facing.
But if officials fail to adjust as the crisis unfolds, then Buiter’s charge may seem less extreme.
We were there, and visited eight urban and rural polling places, talked with roughly a hundred voters, election officials and observers, as well as officials from six parties.
This problem will doubtless persist until more local officials are chosen through elections.
The head of the Central Electoral Commission has now proposed that members of the local public join election officials and administrators in compiling the lists.
Merely “weakening” this loop, as European officials recently advocated, could prove deeply insufficient.
Sometimes individual Iranian officials may have acted on their own to order and coordinate specific operations; they will now feel freer to do so.
Finally, Ahmadinejad is likely to be bolder in subverting stability in Iraq, and his victory will encourage radical Iranian officials and extremists within Iraq itself.
In country after country, officials with whom she has met, often under delicate circumstances, describe her as both a teller of difficult truths and a sensitive listener.
As senior Chinese officials gather for their annual summer meeting in Beidaihe, a coastal resort near Beijing, they must recognize the need for a bold plan for genuine structural reform.
Sarkozy and the Euro’s Perfect StormThe more French president Nicolas Sarkozy attacks the European Central Bank and the strong euro, the more he is criticized in the European media, by European finance ministers, European Union officials and the ECB itself.
A major policy mistake and the same public officials now criticizing Sarkozy for attacking the ECB will be joining him.
In most cases, however, local officials would abuse such powers and do more than needed.
Decentralization rewards local officials who are competent and devoted to supporting economic growth.
But it also creates opportunities for these officials to forge surreptitious ties with business owners, and this undermines growth in the long run.
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