Archive for October, 2007

China’s Communists slowly losing credibility

By Howard W. French,  Friday, October 19,  2007, SHANGHAI:
SHANGHAI: Each night this week the television news has opened with images from the biggest event on China’s political calendar, the once-every-five-years congress of the Communist Party.
In a country where political cartoonists are unheard of, and a sense of humor, never mind satire, about politics doesn’t get [...]