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[Editor’s Note: Tsinghua University Professor Sun Liping criticizes the government’s effort to maintain stability at any cost. He believes that the biggest threat to China is not social unrest, but social decay. Professor Sun believes that the current effort to maintain stability is intended to protect China’s special interests groups. Many Chinese websites carried the article. The following are excerpts from the article.] [1]

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[Editor’s Note: Xinhua published an article analyzing China’s strategic position in the South China Sea dispute. The author makes suggestions on how to deal with U.S. intervention on this issue. The entire article is translated below.]

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[Editor’s Note: The following is an interview with a senior Chinese diplomat about Beijing’s foreign diplomacy, published on Xinhua’s International Herald Leader. Interviewee Lu Shiwei is the News Division counselor of the Foreign Affairs Ministry. He joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1989 and used to work in the policy research office of the policy research department (now called the policy planning department) at the Chinese Embassy in Thailand and was the Special Representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Regional Government office in Hong Kong.] [1]

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[Editor’s Notes: The Chinese media have overwhelmingly praised Chinese President Hu Jintao’s U.S. visit as “a historical visit at a critical moment in the Sino-U.S. relationship.” [1] Nanfang Metropolitan published an interview with Jin Canrong, Deputy Dean of the School of International Relations, People’s University, on the subject of Sino-U.S. relations. Jin predicts the relationship will become more stable. There still will be many conflicts between the two sides but those conflicts won’t escalate to confrontation. The following are excerpts about the possible conflicts that Jin foresees down the road.] [1]

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[Editor’s Note: Ms. Zhang Jinming is a Deputy Party Secretary of Mianyang City, Sichuan Province. In 1999, as a District Party Secretary, she organized China’s first direct election of a township administrator. After surviving the controversy that resulted from this experiment, China’s media made Ms. Zhang a celebrity and she received several promotions. [1] The following are excerpts from Ms. Zhang latest article in Study Times. The author lists the problems of China’s Inner-Party democracy. As a pioneer of grassroots democracy, Ms. Zhang’s observations reveal some fundamental flaws and contradictions in the Party’s theory and reality.] [2]

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[Editor’s Note: The following People’s Daily article, authored by the Deputy Director of the National Development and Reform Commission, Xu Xianping, gives details on China-EU economic cooperation, as part of the two parties’ strategic relationship. The translation of excerpts relating to several points from the article follows.] [1]

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[Editor’s Note: A recent article published on the website of Guangming Daily, the government newspaper oriented toward Chinese intellectuals, discussed “essential features” and “contemporary values” of the “China Model,” which has been under heated debate both inside and outside of China. The article hails the China Model as providing “great encouragement and support to socialist countries,” and “a challenge to the developed capitalist countries of the West.” The following is a translation of excerpts from the article.] [1]

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[Editor’s Note: People’s Daily published an article by the State Administration for Religious Affairs that reviews the CCP’s policies and decisions in the area of managing religion during the period of the 11th Five-Year Plan (2006-2010). It stated that the “The Central Committee (of the Chinese Communist Party [CCP]) pointed out … having the right understanding and handling of affairs relating to religion … is critical to the development and long-term stability of the Party and the nation. The CCP’s achievements during the period included starting to use the “Regulations on Religious Affairs” as the main vehicle to regulate and manage religious groups, directing religious practitioners to adjust their religious beliefs to conform to socialist theory, developing new religious leaders, using religious groups around the world to promote the CCP’s religious ideology, and taking control of issues regarding international religious affairs. The following are highlights of the report.] [1]

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