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Wall Street Journal (August 22)

2013/ 08/ 22 by jd in Global News

Bo Xilai, the former political powerhouse of Chonqing, is approaching trial. He has already “undermined three core claims of the Communist Party. First, that the national leadership is unified. Second, that the process of selecting the next generation of leaders is institutionalized. And finally that open struggle for power like that seen during the 1966-76 Cultural Revolution can never happen again.”

 

Wall Street Journal (August 21)

2013/ 08/ 22 by jd in Global News

The senseless killing of an Australian exchange student by 3 Oklahoma teenagers should leave Americans wondering just how to fix “a culture that produces teenagers for whom the prospect of shooting an innocent man in the back on a Friday evening apparently raised not a scintilla of conscience.”

 

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