The Chinese leadership may very well make use of the market as a tool for the destruction of some "inefficient- state owned enterprises (that have acted as a drain on the government's revenues)--leaving the blame for any subsequent rise in unemployment to the impersonal market mechanism, rather than to conscious government policy. Restructuring the state owned enterprises is essential to the health of the Chinese economy, the success of the government and the status of the Communist Party. ... The Chinese feel a sense of betrayal from a government who once promised the "iron rice bowl-...

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Competition has been the key to China's success: I believe that competition has been the key to China's success. ... An Inflationary crisis within two years will test the government's reformist mettle: The 14th Communist Party Congress, set the official seal on the fourth wave of economic reform. ... Government Finance: l think that the government should stop making up for losses of state-owned firms, and stop paying subsidies to these firms and consumers, hence the budget gap would be more than closed. Why privatisation may not be needed: Privatisation in many cases may not be ...

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Firstly by muting all international conflicts and geopolitical ambitions, China followed the examples of other newly industrialising economies (NIEs), giving priority to industries and sectors where limited government investments would produce rapid growth. ... The government introduced a phased program of removing price subsidies on consumer good, which allowed the market to determine the price of goods to spur economic growth and encourage consumption. ... Eventually on June 4 1989, the government called upon hundreds of tanks and heavily armed soldiers who were to spread death and destructi...

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Superpowers such as China now realize that fighting only leads to the downfall of their country and its economy. When the decision to invade Taiwan or not presented itself to China in 1996, economists advised the latter, claiming the invasion would, "stop investment in China, stop growth, stop [China's] last chance to catch up with the rest of the world-(258). ... Potential wartime governments have two options from which they can decide: either fight wars and risk losing international support, or make peace with adversaries and keep cash flow infiltrating steadily. ... Gone are...

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Two most known countries influenced by communism are Russia and China. Today communism is still considered as a major economic structure in countries like China and Cuba. ... Government owns major assets, like natural and capital resources. Government also decided how, what, and for whom the production should be made. ... Government, to help many poor people uses his ideas of distribution of income. ...

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Communism is based around the government owning everything and the people having the right to the same things no matter what their status in society is. As soon as the government becomes corrupt communism falls apart and the system breaks down. ... North Vietnam, Russia, Cuba, As well as china are all or were all communist countries. ... China, which is an active communist country, has just recently stepped into space exploration but they are not the first communists in space the Russian's were. ...

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The definition for capitalism is "a type of social system that separates the economy from the government. ... He said it is "better for a government to have "no intervention in the economy at all". ... The people who are in charge of production lines own it through the government. Communism is an extreme form of socialism that is mainly used in countries like China and Cuba. ... Communism occurs when the government becomes too powerful. ...

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The government previously used to further the interests of the capitalists, would no longer be necessary. ... Leaders of the former Soviet Union and some Eastern European nations decided to abandon government ownership and control of the means of production because the system was unresponsive to the needs of the marketplace and offered no incentive for increased efficiency. ... China previously the world's other major communist economy announced that it would privatize most state industries. In privatization, resources are converted from the state ownership to the private ownership;...

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The government previously used to further the interests of the capitalists, would no longer be necessary. ... Leaders of the former Soviet Union and some Eastern European nations decided to abandon government ownership and control of the means of production because the system was unresponsive to the needs of the marketplace and offered no incentive for increased efficiency. ... China previously the world's other major communist economy announced that it would privatize most state industries. In privatization, resources are converted from the state ownership to the private ownership;...

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The next major cause of the Revolution was England's government policies. ... Communism is a system in which there is a classless society- without any government. ... Communism rained over the world in countries such as Russia which at the time was the Soviet Union and countries like China. ... The citizens knew the government was going to take action to fix this, and so they people had hope. These reforms changed the course of England's history and how the government was perceive by it's citizens and how the government should protect the rights of it's people. ...

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As this attitude grows, it extends to governments and nations as a whole, as seen by the way nations pick and choose what global human rights issues it will care about, based on what will benefit them. Take the situations of Cuba and China for example. ... Meanwhile, Congress tries to establish free trade with China, a country that among many, many other things encourages throwing babies off cliffs if they are girls. ...

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As a result of economic globalisation, advocates propose that it no longer suffices to refer to goods as being American, British or Chinese and no longer appropriate to refer to economies as being German or Canadian but more appropriate to refer to a global economy, in which interdependent and interrelated economic relationships have developed, spearheaded by improvements in transport and telecommunications. ... According to this view, it makes little sense for America to produce textiles at home when they can be produced at a lower cost in Honduras or China (which unlike Honduras is a major ...

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Although we aren't dependent on Iraq for bartering currently, but once we overthrow their government and create a democratic country, then we will export their oil. ... The only debate that I have with Lenin's argument is if capitalism creates a world market, then how do we explain China, a country based on communistic principles, but it trades with every major country in the world and I would consider it an advanced country. ...

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Stronger governments have had more choice than weaker governments concerning their response to global pressures for more international and less regulated economic activities. Even the weakest government, however, has had some room for manoeuvre. ... Ongoing global economic growth, coupled with the fact that the best performers tend to be particularly open to globalized forms of production (such as India and China for example), suggests that the spread of wealth is inherently linked to globalization. ... However, the Chinese had developed better and more sophisticated technology much earlier b...

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It argues that globalisation is undermining the ability of governments to provide a legitimate social bond between governors and the governed. ... Early definitions also demonstrated an optimistic, progressive, modernist teleology exemplified in Kenichi Ohmae's McKinseyesque cartography of a borderless world in which the nation state becomes increasingly irrelevant.6 Globalisation becomes a 'normalising discourse' of power conditioning the policy responses of governments to the perception, if not always the reality, of global market integration. ...

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