And for good measure he threw in criticism of flip-flops in central-government policy, notably an imminent about-turn on tax exemptions for imported machinery.

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Perhaps as early as next year, after the completion of a nationwide census in November, the central government will permit large-scale experiments liberalizing the policy, which generally limits couples to a single child.

FORBES: The End of China��s One-Child Policy?

The central government has not made any statement about the two-child policy since Rakhine state authorities quietly enacted the measure a week ago.

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This would mean genuine, American-style federalism, not the German kind, where the central government makes policy and the states administrate it.

FORBES: Fact And Comment

This would mean genuine, American-style federalism, not the German kind, where the central government makes policy and the states carry out the administration of it.

FORBES: Fact And Comment

In 2009 the DPJ ran on a quasi-populist and anti-establishment platform, promising on domestic policy to change the central government bureaucracy dominated, wasteful public works project spending driven, and big business and agricultural lobby favoring model of governance that basically described LDP government that had already backtracked on reforms made during the tenure of Koizumi Junichiro (2001-2006).

FORBES: Connect

This demand is a centerpiece of the U.S. government's controversial new "bi-partisan" policy toward Central America.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

Defending Clinton and the DNC, they say that only a fraction of the funds raised by Democrats came from foreign sources, and they note that the committee was never able to find definitive evidence of Thompson's central premise -- that the communist Chinese government executed a plan to illegally influence the presidential election and American foreign policy.

CNN: By Jackie Koszczuk, CQ Staff Writer