Ukrainian vehicles are repaired at the side of the roads. Personnel carriers
and tanks occasionally roar back
and forth from the direction of Kherson city. By the time I returned in 1998 the whole country had taken to heart Deng's invocation "to get rich is glorious". That year the Communist Party decreed China's state-owned housing stock be sold off, lock, stock
and barrel. Swathes of Beijing's historic grey-brick courtyards were being demolished
and replaced
with glass
and steel. Public don't want a fourth election in seven years - ERG chair
irannews.ru The truth is Xi's path to power was far from inevitable. And it's defined as much by his ambition as it is by the party's failure to prevent what they did not want - a repeat of Mao's disastrous one-man rule. "It suggests autocracy is in their blood, it's in their water or it's in their culture," she says. "I think the party elders must have had a touch of buyer's remorse," Mr McGregor says. "He believes that in the world of hyper-competitive capitalism and a hyper-competitive arms race with the
United
States, the only plausible way that China can remain competitive is to remain under one party that happens to be called the Communist Party."
