IR You state that Mr Tung supported change in the medium of instruction in schools because pro-China patriots in Hong Kong wanted mother-tongue teaching.
Mr Soong claims China tried to persuade him not to run, though he is probably saying that to earn kudos even pro-China candidates must not be seen at home as too cuddly towards the Communists.
The delegates' revelations also suggest that Li Ruihuan, seen as one of the most pro-reform of China's leaders, has been forced to retire early.
The stall in liberalization has led to increasing public frustration on the part of some pro-reform intellectuals in China.
Given the communist crazies north of the border, it is not surprising that Park's regime chose to label a democrat as a left-winger, but the label was no more true of him than it would be for a pro-democracy campaigner in China.
As a result, there is no meaningful political counterweight in place that signals the United States' displeasure with the continuing brutal repression in China or that offsets the pro-regime overtones of the president's recent decision to renew China's most favored nation (MFN) status.
SOEs should reduce pro-cyclical investment and thus China's tendency to swing from boom to bust.
Japan, too, supports the idea of a pro-American grouping in the region to counterbalance China.
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Rep. John Kasich (R-Ohio), another possible 2000 contender, will also vote against MFN for China, despite his usual pro-business credentials.
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The choice was a surprise - and it may have been aimed at easing anxieties within Taiwan's military and in China about Chen's pro-independence proclivities.
The web can also be effective in supporting the government line, or at least casting doubt on critics' position (China has an army of pro-government bloggers).
This is the case of Zhou Xunshu, a 35-year-old pro golfer Washburn befriended during his first China Tour assignment, who grew up in a mountain village in the country's impoverished southwest.
And today, support for India's ruling BJP is surging, boosted by pro-Hindu policies and now nuclear rivalry with Pakistan and China.
Yet by all accounts, Romney is fully committed to the negative sum policy of bashing China, instead of the positive sum pro-growth policies in his quest for the Oval Office.
The appropriate response by the U.S. government -- especially in light of the public execution of pro-democracy demonstrators -- would include additional measures outlined in the Center's report entitled Building Democracy in China: The U.S. Role, dated June 8th.
In fact, Chen's speech appeared to fairly successfully straddle a line between the demands of China on one hand and the radical, pro-independence faction of his Democratic Progressive Party on the other.
Beijing views America's pro-democracy foreign policy as aimed, in part, at changing China's system, while Washington inherently distrusts the motives and actions of authoritarian governments.
China restricts access to anything with a Tibetan or pro-democracy flavour.
Some oversensitive people interpret the ad as China-bashing, and the Chinese government issued a pro forma denunciation.
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Pro-democracy unrest in the late 1980s played a far bigger role in turning China capitalist than either officials, or admirers of China's supposed gradualist approach, suggest.
China remains a slow mover, and no radical anti-dollar, pro-yuan moves should be expected from the guys in Beijing.
Whilst Mr Gore, conscious of his union supporters, held back a little in his support for permanent trading relations with China, Mr Bush, who comes from the free-trading, pro-immigration side of his party, was more effusive about globalisation.
In a separate show of opposition to the US strikes, pro-Taleban Pakistanis were reported to still be blocking a key transport link between the country and China.
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