FOR nearly two decades, the Communist Party strove to wipe out the national memory of Zhao Ziyang, the reform-minded party secretary who opposed the use of force against pro-democracy protesters in 1989...
- William Moss
"The selection of slogans has always been a gauge of the party-state’s mood at the moment of the parade. Sadly, since the nineteen-eighties, the lacklustre bureaucratese of Deng Xiaoping and his technocratic successors has consistently assured us of bland and turgid sloganeering. Invariably, this time around there will be the usual nostrums related to Hu Jintao’s much touted but deeply troubled “harmonious society” (hexie shehui) and the “scientific developmental strategy,” which is his vaunted theoretical contribution to “Marxism-Leninism-Mao Zedong Thought-Deng Xiaoping Theory and Jiang Zemin-ideas.” These will appear along with the usual array of wholesome homilies in the national media."
- William Moss
Understanding China FCPA Risks. Who Is A Foreign Official? - China Law Blog: a blog about Chinese law and the legal issues of doing business in China. - http://www.chinalawblog.com/2009...
The story of the death of Tim's Texas Roadhouse. I sympathize, but it was hard not to stroll down Super Bar Street and see its days as numbered. It can join the now long-departed Sanlitun South among the collection of great Beijing watering-hole districts paved over in name of redevelopment.
- William Moss