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To the disappointment of many, Hu ended up giving a lackluster oration that, instead of extolling political reform, re-emphasized the dreary notion of the Three Represents--the banal theory advanced by former Party chief Jiang Zemin, which allowed businessmen to be included in the Party.
Then reform-minded intellectuals like Cao Siyuan began to be trailed by Public Security Bureau goons, and members attending a conferences on legal reform organized by Cao were admonished by the Propaganda Department (China's censors) to stop discussing the "three unmentionables," (political reform, constitutional revision, and reversing the verdicts on historical incidents).
It was clear that the reform bandwagon had hit a wall.
As so often in the past, this latest reform effort hit the limits of permissible Party tolerance almost before it got going.
It is an old story in China: calls for reform by liberalizers end up antagonizing conservative Party members--in this case, the political faction of Jiang Zemin, who, although not on the Politburo standing committee, still heads the powerful central Military Commission and wields substantial influence.
What this pattern suggests is that the Party can rarely choke down more than the smallest dose of political reform, much less outright criticism before reacting in an almost autonomic fashion against it.
While a process of "peaceful evolution" offers the best prospect for change in this mutating "people's republic," the Party's demonstrated inability to countenance even the most modest quotients of political challenge--even with a new generation of leaders in power--does not inspire confidence in the prospect for piecemeal reform.
China may be something of a miracle of economic reform, but until changes come in its Leninist governmental system, borrowed from the USSR during the Stalinist era, a truly new New China will never arise.
The lessons from the Fukushima crisis can serve as a useful guide for reform.
Those countries that opt for reform will require not only political courage, but also well-crafted policies.
The OLA, created under the Dodd-Frank financial reform legislation of 2010, was intended to prevent a recurrence of what happened in September 2008, when one failing firm, Lehman Brothers, was able to trigger a cascade effect that nearly destroyed the financial system.
Amazingly, in the one area vital to its economic and social performance, America shies away from biting the reform bullet.
While US lawmakers are pushing to repeal portions of the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial reform legislation – which contains a provision requiring oil, gas, and mining companies to disclose payments they make to governments – the broader trend is toward greater transparency and accountability.
Second, in the debate about fiscal consolidation and structural reform, Western economies have not yet achieved the right balance of deficit reduction, incentives for innovation, and macroeconomic stimulus, but there are signs of change coming from Brussels.
Third, politics and economics – which are pulling in opposite directions when it comes to migration, shared sovereignty, and welfare reform – need to be reconciled.
Fourth, the eurozone is not the EU, and euro reform must not be allowed to destroy the EU as an alliance of equal partners.
The policy mix remains too pro-cyclical, causing the deflationary impact of fiscal consolidation to drown out the benefits of structural reform.
But the EU’s unpopularity should not drive countries to exit; it should spur reform that embraces all EU member countries and improves the way the EU functions, rather than merely tinkers with the structure.
There was a missed opportunity on the budget, where the focus on limiting its size obscured the importance of budget reform.
The other major element of the reform package is an increase and rebalancing of the quotas that determine each country’s voting power and financial obligation.
Congress would still need to ratify the measure before the US’s own quota increased, but its approval would not be required for this part of the reform package to take effect for other countries.
In 2010, the reform package passed with more than 95% of the votes.
This guarantee could be included in the resolution dividing the reform package into two parts.
Clarity is a prerequisite of serious discussion and ambitious reform.
Apart from the unanimous nomination of Prodi, the main achievements of the Berlin summit were a dilution of the reform of farm policy, a dilution of budget reform, and maintenance of the absurd and hypocritical pretence that the first six candidates for membership can expect to be inside the EU by 2002.
Their only explicit instruction to Prodi is that he should lay out a programme of administrative reform so as to avoid a re-run of the administrative scandals which brought down Santer.
Radical reform of higher education is simply unimaginable without outside pressure on today’s petrified universities.
State-owned health insurance companies, state guaranteed retirement, etc. are not only insecure and inefficient; they are also contrary to the idea of political reform.
Societies (and politicians) in postcommunist countries -- in some Western countries, too -- must be clear about the consequences of modernization as reform is pursued.
But too often the debate about China’s economy has been dominated by naive proposals for supply-side reform – accompanied by criticism of the demand-side measures adopted after the 2008 global financial crisis.
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