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Francis Fukuyama: Xi is jeopardizing China's future.

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Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/theworldpost/wp/2018/03/06/xi/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.afbf8c1636bc Francis Fukuyama is a senior fellow at Stanford University and director of its Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law. His book “Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment” will be published in September. Since 1978, China’s authoritarian political system has been different from virtually all other dictatorships in part because the ruling Communist Party has been subject to rules regarding succession. Term limits for senior leadership have kicked in at regular 10-year intervals three times so far, and the party’s system of cultivating and training new leaders to replace the outgoing ones had allowed it to avoid the stagnation of countries like Egypt, Zimbabwe, Libya or Angola, where presidents ruled for decades. But all of this is out the window now because of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s recent annou...

200 năm Các xồm: Is Marx Still Relevant? May 1, 2018 Peter Singer.

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Source: https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/karl-marx-200th-birthday-by-peter-singer-2018-05  http://nghiencuuquocte.org/2018/05/07/lieu-karl-marx-co-con-hop-thoi/#more-25640 On the 200th anniversary of Karl Marx’s birth on May 5, 1818, it isn’t far-fetched to suggest that his predictions have been falsified, his theories discredited, and his ideas rendered obsolete. So why should we care about his legacy in the twenty-first century? MELBOURNE – From 1949, when Mao Zedong’s communists triumphed in China’s civil war, until the collapse of the Berlin Wall 40 years later, Karl Marx’s historical significance was unsurpassed. Nearly four of every ten people on earth lived under governments that claimed to be Marxist, and in many other countries Marxism was the dominant ideology of the left, while the polic...

Lies, Damn Lies, and Vietnam’s Trade Statistics by Le Hong Hiep

Source: https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/china-vietnam-uncertain-export-statistics-by-le-hong-hiep-2018-04 Vietnamese edition: http://nghiencuuquocte.org/2018/05/02/thuc-hu-viec-trung-quoc-tro-thanh-thi-truong-xuat-khau-lon-nhat-cua-viet-nam/#more-25600 For some, data showing that China has overtaken the United States as Vietnam’s biggest export market is evidence that China’s influence in the region is growing, particularly on strategic issues like sea-lane navigation. But a closer reading of the numbers suggests that the data are wrong – and may be intentionally misleading. SINGAPORE – On April 17, Bloomberg  reported that China had overtaken the United States as Vietnam’s largest export market. According to figures cited by the news organization and tallied by the International Monetary Fund, Vietnam’s exports to China totaled $50.6 billion in 2017, compared to...

Why Can’t China Make Semiconductors?

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Source: https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-04-29/why-can-t-china-make-semiconductors-jglgice5 Jack Ma says he's ready for China to make semiconductors at home. It's a longstanding goal for the Chinese government. And thanks to a recent crackdown on certain technology exports by the U.S., it's now a critical one. The question is whether China can finally conquer this challenge after decades of failures. Semiconductors are the building blocks of electronics, found in everything from flip phones to the servers that make up a supercomputer. Although China long ago mastered the art of making products with semiconductors produced elsewhere (the iPhone is the most famous example), it wants to move beyond being a mere assembler. It aspires to being an originator of products and ideas , especially in cutting-edge industr...