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He made a tour of China to keep emphasis on his policies and inspire the entrepreneurship that exists in China today.

Modern Communism in China The current constitution was created in and been continually revised since. The constitution includes many civil rights: free speech, press, worship, the right to trial, and the right to own private property.

However, in practice this constitution has widely not been followed. There has been very little done to ensure that new laws instituted follow the constitution. The judicial system does not provide any particular method for review of new laws. Computer usage in China has exploded.

Currently, there are over million internet users and over million mobile phone users. There is a huge increase of the computer users in China, and ethics of technology has become increasingly prominent over the years. I think he believes in the Party. I think he believes only the Party can deliver the correct policies to move China forward.

I think on the question of Xinjiang and Hong Kong, it relates in part, as you say, to questions of identity, and Tibet comes into that as well.

The Party finds it difficult to accept alternative narratives and alternative histories from one which is presented by the Party itself. And, of course, the Party itself, as you said, is dominated by Han Chinese. So an idea of an independent history for Tibet or for Xinjiang is anathema to the Party. For Xi, I think Hong Kong could be a crowning achievement. Deng Xiaoping set a framework for bringing back Macao and Hong Kong, but I think Xi Jinping will be seen as the person that really brought Hong Kong back under the fold of the mainland.

I think it also influences his attitude toward Taiwan. At some point, in some authoritarian systems, the structure of the party becomes less important than the personality of one man. We tend to focus on individuals, like Mao, Deng, and now Xi. The post of General Secretary, of course, has incredible authority and power.

But if someone else is General Secretary, they would have that authority and power. I think the Party would see the same concerns, the same fears, the same challenges, and would pursue reasonably similar policies. Maybe not with quite the same level of adulation around Xi Jinping that we see currently.

I know that during your career it has been important to you to have dialogue with people in the Communist Party, bringing some of them to Harvard for discussions and so on.

You are right that we are in a different era. But I think there are three things that are important to take into account moving forward. The first is, like it or not, American businesses are not going to stop investing and trying to sell goods in the Chinese market. A second point is that for the United States to meet many of its own objectives it has to incorporate China in some way.

John Kerry going to Shanghai to talk about climate is one obvious example, despite our differences over human-rights issues. The third is the problem of extrapolating from the present into the future. But I spent a lot of my time in rural China, and it has a lot of problems. Foreign investment is not going to keep increasing, but it will remain significant. Shigeru Miyamoto rejects violence in video games and wants to be a good boss. Mary Beard says the classics deserve neither a pedestal nor destruction.

Rita Moreno tries to recover her story. The Chinese Communist Party, founded in in Shanghai , originally existed as a study group working within the confines of the First United Front with the Nationalist Party. Chinese Communists joined with the Nationalist Army in the Northern Expedition of —27 to rid the nation of the warlords that prevented the formation of a strong central government.

Frustrated by the focus of the Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek on internal threats instead of the Japanese assault, a group of generals abducted Chiang in and forced him to reconsider cooperation with the Communist army. The Nationalists expended needed resources on containing the Communists, rather than focusing entirely on Japan, while the Communists worked to strengthen their influence in rural society.

These undemocratic polices combined with wartime corruption made the Republic of China Government vulnerable to the Communist threat. The CCP, for its part, experienced success in its early efforts at land reform and was lauded by peasants for its unflagging efforts to fight against the Japanese invaders. Japanese surrender set the stage for the resurgence of civil war in China.

Though only nominally democratic, the Nationalist Government of Chiang Kai-shek continued to receive U. The Soviet Union, meanwhile, occupied Manchuria and only pulled out when Chinese Communist forces were in place to claim that territory. In , the leaders of the Nationalist and Communist parties, Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Zedong, met for a series of talks on the formation of a post-war government.