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BEIJING, Feb. 27 -- The Communist Party cautioned China's increasingly impatient reformers and intellectuals Tuesday that political liberalization and democracy are still a long way off despite the rapid pace of economic change during the past two decades.
The warning, in an article attributed to Premier Wen Jiabao in the official People's Daily, constituted the party's first-known response to a bubbling up of political debate as China prepares for an annual session of its legislature and an important Communist Party congress -- held every five years -- that is scheduled for this fall.
-- Edward Cody for The Washington Post
Business, good; voting, less so.
I guess we will not be seeing a liberal, democratic China in our lifetime. If we can avoid war with them, I'd say we are still ahead of the game. And at least they don't seem to be into jihad.
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BEIJING, Feb. 27 -- The Communist Party cautioned China's increasingly impatient reformers and intellectuals Tuesday that political liberalization and democracy are still a long way off despite the rapid pace of economic change during the past two decades.
The warning, in an article attributed to Premier Wen Jiabao in the official People's Daily, constituted the party's first-known response to a bubbling up of political debate as China prepares for an annual session of its legislature and an important Communist Party congress -- held every five years -- that is scheduled for this fall.
-- Edward Cody for The Washington Post
Business, good; voting, less so.
I guess we will not be seeing a liberal, democratic China in our lifetime. If we can avoid war with them, I'd say we are still ahead of the game. And at least they don't seem to be into jihad.
