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| | Asia Times Online :: China News, China Business News, Taiwan and Hong Kong News and Business. |
 | | In the same vein, a recent white paper describes China as having a "socialist democracy", that is, "democracy with Chinese characteristics". |
 | | Hu was sacked in 1987 for apparently leaning towards "Western, bourgeois" principles of democracy, and for indirectly encouraging questioning of the communist system, as well as for pushing economic reforms beyond their intended limits. |
 | | This seems to indicate the tradition of the Italian Communist Party, which upheld democracy in Italy in the 1970s, even against the threat of the communist Red Brigades; or that of the Marxists from the anti-Stalinist school of Frankfurt, which stirred the European students' movement of the 1960s. |
| www.atimes.com /atimes/China/GK09Ad01.html (2078 words) |
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