It is because cultural and social modernization has not taken hold in these countries, and proper religion has been perverted to breed fanatics, not democrats.

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If, however, China's access to U.S. capital markets is impeded, the country could fall well short of its capital needs over the next decade, which could doom its hopes for modernization and social stability.

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Nine areas of priority were highlighted, including reforming public administration, fiscal reform, financial liberalization to allow for more international bank participation in the Chinese economy, social welfare reform, urbanization, agriculture modernization, and technology and innovation.

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In addition to its role in battling corruption, the media has also emerged as an important tool for combating and addressing many of the other social problems that China is facing in its rapid modernization.

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Just as Sakamoto helped bring about a social revolution that set Japan on the road to modernization, Son, Sawada and Nambu are calling for another revolution - one that will replace what they believe is an inefficient, outdated business culture with a new paradigm that will prepare Japan for the next century.

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But as China hurtles headlong into rampant modernization and urbanization, producing millions of new homeowners, its social fabric and thousands of years of its history will no doubt become fundamentally, and irrevocably, altered.

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Portman embodies the formula for GOP modernization: a conservatism that unapologetically applies the principle of individual freedom consistently to both fiscal and social policy.

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