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thus , i believe the nation which benefits the most from the disintegration of the soviet union is china .


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i think the people of china themselves care very little about issues such as freedom and so forth but are all for making money right now , although the outside world has been busy lately talking about the anniversary of the tiananmen square incident ; do n't you ?


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from the start , we and china were not to compete against each other .


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the point i would like to make is that we should place strong emphasis on investment in china rather than trade .


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our investment would lead a path to a joint progress through our technological resource and china 's labor force .


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we ought to cultivate a strategic relationship of cooperation with china through our investment in such industrial fields such as the automotive industry .


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the objectives of korea - china relations should be coexistence-cohabitation centered around investment rather than trade .


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-lsb- pak -rsb- although what you have just said is probably true in an economic field , china appears to hold its prescribed opinions on its neighboring countries as was shown in the political situation of cambodia .


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it seems that china would like to have the governments of the nations near its border under its influence as was demonstrated in its welcome for sihanouk with open arms when he had nowhere else to turn to .


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china has maintained its own plans on north korea and i wonder if it has not had its operating objectives toward south korea , with which it had not had official relations for the past 40 years , to realize a structural change in , south korea , receptive to its political influence .


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-lsb- hwang -rsb- in the past , there had been a period in china when its internal politics were dictated by mao zedong and its foreign policies by chou en-lai .


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those five principles are still adhered to , today by the government of china .


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i believe some of the results of china 's foreign policy based on the five principles are seen precisely in the cases of cambodia 's sihanouk and also of arafat ; would n't you say ?


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i heard that arafat visited china more than 30 times .


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there has been not a single deviation in china 's foreign policy conduct from the five principles of peace .


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-lrb- chon ki-song -rrb- , -lrb- foreign minister of china -rrb- , has been saying the same thing at the united nations recently .


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ever since the bandung conference of 1955 , they have consistently been the guiding principles of china 's foreign policy .


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during that time , even faced with some hard choices , china has been consistent in maintaining its posture adhering to the principles without a compromise .


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this is the foundation , i believe , on which china has been able to maintain consistent relations with sihanouk and arafat .


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china 's move on north-south korea relations is based on the principles , as well .


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i understand china made its position clear stating that it `` supported negotiated relsolution through dialogues but opposed any rival conflict as a means of solution for the north-south korea relations and firmly believed in nuclear-free korean peninsula . ''


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these principles maintained by china impressed kim il - son recently , as well .


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he said , `` china 's reform and open policies are going rather well . ''


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china 's five principles of peace are having great effects on the relations between the united states and north korea .


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however , the principal cause for north korea 's overture to the united states was , above all , the application by china of its five principles of peace to the issues of korean peninsula .


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as you may recall , north korea clearly stated that it would maintain dialogues with the united states as china wished , and lead a policy toward foundation for stability in korean peninsula and its borders , '' to ho kum -su , a regular member of the chinese communist party political bureau , and wang han -mu , vice chairman of the standing committee of the national people 's congress of china , during their visits to pyongyang .


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we would benefit from china 's five principles of peace , just as sihanouk of cambodia did .


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-lsb- pak -rsb- if my memory serves me correctly , i believe diplomatic issues had been nearly non-existent in china during the cultural revolution because of preoccupation with internal problems .


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there had not been , on china 's part , any mention of the five principles of peaceful coexistence for some time , even after the cultural revolution .


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about the fall of 1989 china all of a sudden proclaimed `` we will resurrect the five principles of peaceful coexistence we had in past and adopt them as the principles for foreign policy of today .


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it seems to me that this revival of the five principles of peaceful coexistence of the 50 's happened because china saw the need for peace and order in carrying out its reform , openness , and economic development , as it was experiencing internal difficulties surrounding the incident of tiananmen square .


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have you not observed any attempt or move by china to secure a leverage for its influence in korea , i.e .


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to install a group supporting china by forming a pro- china political faction in seoul , etc. ?


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the way they see it , it seems , is that china could return to its past glory as a strong power by uplifting its economy as a nation , and freeing itself of foreign economic pressures .


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-lsb- pak -rsb- not long ago , kim il -song had made , it seems to me , a remark of major proportion when he said , `` china 's reform is encouraging to us , north koreans , '' during the visit to pyongyan by -lrb- wang han -mu -rrb- , -lrb- vice chairman of the national people 's congress -lrb- npc -rrb- -rrb- of china .


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-lsb- hwang -rsb- kim il -song came to beijing 99 times , but , since the establishment of diplomatic relations between south korea and china last year , he has not made a single visit to beijing .


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china discontinued its once brisk exchanges with north korea and high-level exchange has become infrequent .


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realizing this , we can understand why kim il -song said to china `` there would be no rival conflict in korean peninsula . ''


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although it might be somewhat premature to draw a conclusion definitely as such , i suspect , reading fine points in what kim il -song said , that north korea would join hands with china soon , is pursuing its reform and openness .


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in this context , it calls our attention to the fact that north korea is ready to accept china 's venture capital in the nachin frontier area , north of chongjin .


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what north korea is betting on is that once china invests its capital in the region , naturally south korea would follow and , then , japan , taiwan and hong kong and so forth , as well .


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it would be a big mistake if we did not take our part in the investment and left when china invested its capital in north korea .


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he would probably look for the dealings with south korea through china .


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-lsb- hwang -rsb- there are a few facts that should make us feel safe as far as china is concerned .


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first , we are at least 10 years ahead of china in economic development .


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in contrast , cost consciousness or cost accounting is not the norm in china .


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this is , in a way , a detrimental shortcoming of china 's economy .


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thirdly , people in china are used to being ordered around by bureaucrats to manage their economic lives .


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it would take a long time for china to arrive at the properly functional mechanism and system of its economy , including those financial and monetary areas .


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recently , they have been studying japan 's monetary system .


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setting up the system alone would take china the next four to five years at least , as they are currently debating about institution of a taxation system .


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as for economic systems , i believe china is 10 to 15 years behind us .


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i do n't think we have to worry much if china continues at this current pace .


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if we fail to invest more capital and improve our technology , and china keeps up its economic growth at the current rate , which is 13 percent per year , we will have a big problem .


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have you , ambassador , considered yourself the korean version of yasushi akashi regarding our relationship with china ?


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in order to achieve all these , we must maintain our close relationship with china .


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north korea is currently in a situation where it would welcome any party that came jointly with china .


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the timing and the laying of foundations for unification should also be attempted and attained with the help of china .


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has it been a wise policy decision , on our part , that china should lend a helping hand in order to keep north korea from causing any trouble ?


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part of this plan included a program to install a $ 3,000 cellular telephone for east german families despite the fact that the west germans used an 800 dollar telephone in their homes .


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economic solutions alone would not bring answers to politico-cultural questions and the emotional question of a nation within .


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this is not the same as the east germans felt about honecker .


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-lsb- pak -rsb- what should be the role of our embassy in china and what can we expect the embassy would accomplish ?


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-lsb- hwang -rsb- the role of korean ambassador to china is to seek out the best ways to maintain comfortable coexistence between korea and china , especially , in the future , in the 21st century .


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reform in 1994 expected to be more risky , difficult


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while the man on the street felt inspired by these necessary comments , economists adept at independent thinking , having understood the content and implications of the `` decision , '' have begun to foresee the grim challenges facing china as it works to implement the document .


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henceforth , as someone said , china has entered an era when `` reform is an utterly mental exercise . ''


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we must realize that reform in china has always been a gradual process , moving from the countryside to cities , from special economic zones and the coast to the interior , from the establishment of individual enterprises , township and town enterprises , and foreign-funded enterprises to the transformation of the mechanism of state enterprises , and from the price decontrol of some commodities to the abolition of command planning .


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at the numerous seminars and conferences held in beijing in the past half year , economists have enumerated , from a variety of perspectives , the costs of the current reform with its dual-track system : cost 1 : the boom-and-bust economic cycle .


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dr. du runsheng -lsb- 2629 3387 3932 -rsb- , the 80-year-old president of the china land institute , for instance , told reporters as early as last summer that we must start thinking about merging the two tracks of the dual-track system right now .


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perhaps more than the stirring eulogistic language -- `` the great bridge , '' `` blueprint , '' `` call to arms '' -- used by the press , it is these honest down-to-earth characterizations by the economists which can better help us understand the nature of the `` decision `` and the arduousness of the reform facing us .


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as soon as he arrived back in beijing , he telephoned ding wang -lsb- 0002 2598 -rsb- , editor-in-chief of zhonghua gongshang shibao .


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to stimulate an economic recovery , the government hastily adopts a liberal monetary policy , loosens its grip on the scale of investment , and boosts the money supply .


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in china , where idle resources available for retrospective investment are scarce , the rate of economic growth is directly proportional to the real gain in productivity .


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professor xiao zhuoji argued that economic development in china is cyclical , with each cycle lasting seven years .


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for three and one-half years , we have robust growth , followed by another three years and a half of adjustment .


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inflation in china after 1993 has something to do with the lifting of price controls and the increase in the business tax , not the over -expansion of the money supply .


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all of them rightly wish to push ahead with the enterprise of economic reform in china .


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since when has white-collar crime in china meant cases involving millions , even tens of millions , of yuan ?


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since when have white-collar criminals in china been moving in and out of the country ?


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some of the data are shocking : -- in 1987 alone , the price differential of all controlled commodities amounted to more than 130 billion yuan , the interest-on-funds differential totaled about 20 billion yuan , and the foreign exchange price differential amounted to 50 billion yuan , for a combined price differential society-wide of more than 200 billion yuan .


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since price differentials are on this mammoth a scale and there are so many institutional loopholes , the exploiters reaped a windfall of a whopping 10 billion yuan even if they pocketed only 5 percent of the differential income .


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investment loans totalled 2,200 billion yuan or so in 1992 .


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here alone we are looking at 220 billion yuan in hidden bribes .


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in economics and has come to china from the university of chicago , made the following comment : `` reform no doubt entails the reshuffle of the old pattern of vested interests .


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this is precisely why , professor wu jinglian reminds us , that the vested interests , which are extremely powerful , may work to distort the new round of reform while holding high the banner of reform so as to create new opportunities to `` trade power for money , '' `` engage in insider trading , '' and `` play money games . ''


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in an analysis a year ago of the current situation in china , ji si dao , chief beijing correspondent for the new york times , wrote , `` although things are going well now , it is hard to tell whether in the future china will become a dragon like singapore or degenerate into yet another latin american amoeba . ''


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people who used to have power now have money as well ...


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some economists ask , `` with economic reform having gone this far , what should we concentrate on now so that the new system can take center stage ? ''


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china still had 13,600 large- and medium-sized state enterprises as of 1992 with a combined output value of 1,350 billion yuan .


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two-thirds of these enterprises are losing money , while the remainder is marginally profitable .


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the emphasis is solely on state properties in the form of goods and materials , not state properties in the form of money .


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there is a preoccupation with the static , with preserving what already exists , while little is done to encourage fluidity and value appreciation .


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the belief is that the only way to prevent state assets from being lost is to leave them alone .


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in fact , it is precisely here that a number of brilliant minds are watching china 's future economic development model from the perspective of agriculture and examining the theories of development .


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these economists understand agriculture and hence china very well .


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in practical economic work , that means jettisoning the old `` overtaking strategy '' of emphasizing heavy industry and embark on the road of development that is suited to china 's conditions .


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what kind of development strategic thinking , then , should china adopt ?


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for instance , since china has a huge population but is short on arable land and funds , it should work harder to develop labor-intensive enterprises .


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when it becomes capital-rich instead of fund-poor , china can then move onto the development of capital-intensive industries .


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although they started out at a lower level than many countries in south and central america , countries and regions such as taiwan , hong kong , south korea , singapore , and other latecomers like thailand , indonesia , and malaysia either have taken off economically or are about to do so .


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according to a number of young and middle-aged economists , china did adopt a development strategy that favored the development of heavy industry in the early days of the prc but rethought its priorities as early as the 1960 's , when the strategy of `` agriculture , light industry , and heavy industry '' was advanced .


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in old du runsheng 's opinion , china 's ample manpower is both a burden and an opportunity .


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china should redouble its effort to develop enterprises which require little capital but provide lots of jobs , thus creating many employment opportunities .


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we should solve the problem of money-losing enterprises without delay and shift the resources to the development of enterprises that create many jobs .


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as china is perched on the threshold of a new round of reform , these economists ' original but pragmatic thinking should be an inspiration to us all .


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the scholar is none other than dr. hu angang -lsb- 5170 7254 6921 -rsb- , a researcher with the state of the nation analysis group at the chinese academy of sciences -lsb- cas -rsb- .


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these young men came back from the other shore and touched a raw nerve in china : what should be the relationship between the central government and local authorities ?


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he described the `` decision `` as immensely significant , a sign that china has now entered a stage where reform revolves around institutional innovation .


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in a large country like china , hu angang said , the relationship between the central government and local authorities has been a problem since time immemorial .


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survey the world today and take a look at china itself .


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in hu angang 's opinion , what china needs is a strong central government based on the market economy .


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as he sees it , in the future china should follow neither a system of power sharing between the central and local governments , nor a centralized system , but a mixture of the two which would wed the two principles of unity and pluralism .


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china should swiftly introduce a full-fledged tax separation system .


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he said , `` first of all , china has been highly centralized for decades .


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without local initiative , the achievements of reform and development over the past 10 years and more would not have come about and the brave new economic world with its special economic zones , development zones , and coastal open belt would not have materialized .


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by late 1978 , their savings amounted to just 21 billion yuan , a mere 20 yuan per capita .


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in october 1993 personal savings stood at 1,400 billion yuan .


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in the past dozen years or so , has china become stronger as a nation ?


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if china 's national power has really diminished , as indicated by the research of dr. hu angang and others , how can we explain the exceptional attention chairman jiang zemin received when he visited the united states as invited ?


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in china , the central government is led by the cpc and based on longstanding unified party leadership .


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to suggest that there is now a `` feudal economy '' in china would cause unnecessary jitters .


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ignorance is archenemy : the last issue i posed to the interviewees was also the simplest : on the eve of the launching of reform in 1994 , how many people in china really understand the cpc central committee 's `` decision ? ``


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even among experts in economics theory , let alone rank-and-file party and government leading cadres , public employees , people in industry and commerce , or the media , how many have really mastered modern economics theories ?


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ignorance may well turn out to be the worst enemy of the new round of reform in china .


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fang fenglei , the young scholar , did not mince his words , `` china has three kinds of illiterates : people who ca n't read or write , scientific illiterates , and economic illiterates .


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only by standing on the high plane of modern human civilization , it may be said , can we grasp the spiritual essence of the ` decision ' and establish a socialist market economy in china without delay . ''


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china should do what taiwan did back then , which was to attract the qualified personnel to come home .


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they may stay and work or they may be invited to come to china on short-term visit .


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thus did china 's eminent economists think long and hard and talk at length on the eve of the launching of reform 1994 .


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outside hongkong bank 's shenzhen branch on a sultry weekday afternoon in the south china town , two dozen customers stand in line to use the cash machine .


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judged by the vast scale of the country , hongkong bank 's three branches and six representative offices in china are little more than a toehold : but the chinese operations are mostly concentrated in the south , where foreign banks and international investors are co-operating with chinese authorities to produce an explosion of economic development .


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foreign trade and investment in china are growing rapidly , as manufacturing shifts from hong kong to shenzhen and other towns in the pearl river delta in special economic zones in guangdong province just across the border .


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between 1980 and 1991 shenzhen transformed from a fishing town of 50,000 people to a frenetic industrial metropolis and financial centre with a population of 2m .


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most of its workforce comes from chinese villages on one-year contracts .


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workers may earn less than dollars 100 a month .


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the changes are a reward for several decades after 1949 when hongkong bank maintained a token presence in china believing that some day economic relations would revive .


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but at the end of the 1970s it had only the shanghai branch in china .


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business with china breaks down into several categories : trade finance , project finance for infrastructural developments such as the proposed motorway to link hong kong and shenzhen ; direct lending to joint ventures and state corporations ; and bank guarantees for chinese businesses .


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the bank provides no figures about the size of its business in china but , though most of china 's usdollars 135.7bn


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unofficial estimates place the size of the the hongkong bank loan book in china at more than usdollars 4bn , well ahead of its nearest rival , standard chartered .


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hongkong bank officials are upbeat when discussing china 's future and business prospects , but there is a slight note of whistling in the dark about predictions of china 's political future .


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the underlying argument is that if there is a vast and thriving trading and industrial empire in free trade zones such as shenzhen , the pearl delta , and perhaps by 1997 shanghai as well , then the precise complexion of the beijing government will not matter too much .


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peoples bank officials , who are voluble about discussing plans to quintuple the size of the shenzhen economic zone , fall silent when asked about the merger , and say they can add nothing to the beijing foreign ministry statement .


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shanghai 's population has stopped growing because the birth rate has fallen so low , according to china 's ministry of family planning .


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for nearly two decades , china has been trying to curb the growth of its population in order to raise living standards and restrain pressure on scarce resources .


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estimates of the future population are staggering .


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according to government figures this year , the fertility rate - the average number of children per woman implied by current birth rates - has fallen to around 1.9 from 2.25 in 1990 .


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the policy also appears to have encouraged a disproportionate number of baby boys , traditionally preferred to girls in china .


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demographers stress that given these tensions , and the scale of social change now under way in china , particurlarly growing affluence and migration to the cities , the future is highly uncertain .


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in mr haub 's words : 'who knows what china will look like in 30 years time ?


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the range of prospects for its population is enormous . '


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his appointment 2 1/2 months ago went to the heart of hongkong telecom/cable & wireless 's strategy for china and its realisation that the company should be led by an ethnic chinese .


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cracking the china market will not be easy .


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history and geography confer on hongkong telecom a special place in china 's emerging telecommunications market , especially in relation to beijing 's ministry of posts and telecommunications -lrb- mpt -rrb- .


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china , through the mpt , accounts for 20 per cent of hongkong telecom 's revenues .


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also , as the principal and dominant telecoms operator in what is soon to be china 's richest province , hongkong telecom has recognised that it has no alternative but to co-operate with the mpt - the guardian of china 's telecoms system from foreign invasion and a regulator it can not ignore .


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mr cheung yesterday gave the clearest exposition to date of what his company wants to do once the mpt relaxes its prohibition on foreign involvement in china 's domestic network .


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mr cheung believes the bot -lrb- build , operate , transfer -rrb- model - which has been used so successfully by foreign investors in china 's power industry - can be modified and used for regional telecoms development on the mainland .


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it will soon open in shanghai and mr cheung says he would also like the company to be represented in xian and dalian - to cover the north-west and north-east of china respectively .


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'we have lots of friends in china , ' he says .


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submarine systems will lay optical fibre cable in and around the waters of china and maintain the optical fibre link between japan and china .


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given britain 's poor relations with china over hong kong it is remarkable that the deal went through .


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it is even more remarkable that lord young met mr jiang zemin , china 's president and communist party chief .


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if china will let any non-mainland company benefit from involvement in the domestic telecoms network then that company will be hongkong telecom .


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with china 's plans to increase the size of the telephone network from its current capacity of 40m lines to 100m -lrb- and possibly 140m lines -rrb- by 2000 , mr cheung believes that foreign investment will have to come .


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for a chinese nationalist like mr cheung to participate in the building of modern china gives rise to no small amount of pride .


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china greeted the prospect with a ceremony and speeches that urged its citizens to keep practicing birth control .


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in tokyo , a group of experts gathered to debate the significance of the approaching milestone , its effects on the family and the growing problem of feeding all those people .


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asia experts , however , predict the milestone will be reached within days .


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for the two unauthorized births she and her husband were fined a total of $ 1,348 .


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ms. rao 's defiance , and the defiance of others like her , spells new trouble for china .


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ironically , china 's economic reforms are partly responsible for the rise .


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they have increased the incomes of the country 's mostly rural population and thus enabled peasants to pay fines and produce children in spite of government wishes .


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as a result , the rate of growth in china 's population is rising after the nation had virtually halved the alarming 2 % annual increase of two decades ago .


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last year , the country 's population grew 1.44 % , up from a rate of 1.41 % in 1986 and 1.1 % in 1985 .


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`` china 's population -lcb- growth -rcb- is almost out of control again , '' warns a recent editorial in the official guangming daily .


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it is doubling fines -lrb- a second child in ketou now brings a penalty of about $ 1,000 -rrb- and instead of simply penalizing offending families , the government also is basing the pay and promotion of certain officials on their success at limiting births .


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if births exceed state quotas , he stands to lose up to 10 % of his handsome $ 500 annual salary -- and maybe even his job .


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if he does well , he could earn several hundred dollars in bonuses .


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at 3 % , ketou 's annual population growth rate is more than double the national average .


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finally , after months of tense `` persuasion meetings , '' and facing an additional $ 800 in fines , ms. rao agreed to be sterilized .


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the battle to limit population growth is being fought with renewed vigor in every city and village .


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mr. jia recruited her husband 's employer , a branch of the people 's construction bank of china , to help press her to have an abortion .


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a bank official told her that if she had the baby , her husband 's salary would be halved , to $ 6.75 a month .


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the baby is gone but the resentment remains .


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to show a visitor not all women resist , mr. jia goes to the microphone in his office and calls over the loudspeakers scattered across the flat countryside , `` liu lianping .


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in some cases , employers -- who also bear responsibility for population control -- have dismissed workers who have additional children .


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`` anyone can make the calculation , '' says jian hong , a bespectacled 38-year-old teacher and mother who lives in the 12th street area .


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this sentiment is echoed in cities across china .


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their family income is about $ 50 a month , too little , she believes , to support another child .


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because 12th street did well last year , the three senior neighborhood officials divided a bonus from the city government of $ 135 .


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a consensus has n't always existed among china 's leaders that population must be controlled .


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chairman mao tsetung used to argue that `` the more people , the greater china 's strength , '' and he ignored experts ' calls for curtailing growth .


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-lrb- china now has 22 % of the world 's population but only 7 % of its arable land . -rrb-


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but family-planning efforts soon broke down , and birth-rates soared during the 1960s and 1970s until the end of china 's chaotic cultural revolution in 1976 .


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in 1963 , the peak year , 30 million babies were born , pushing the population growth rate to 3.3 % .


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already , food production is n't keeping up with population expansion .


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peasants currently tend cramped farms averaging only about one-quarter of an acre each , while , in the cities , workers have just a few square feet of living space apiece .


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the government has hoped to double current per-capita income to more than $ 800 by the year 2000 , but that too is threatened by china 's chronic , if cyclical , population explosions , officials warn .


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china has lost control of population growth , says mr. jia , the ketou official .


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if we fail to limit population , china 's living standard will never improve . ''


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the same day , at the opulent palace hotel a few miles away , manicured men in tailored suits sit under crystal chandeliers discussing china 's future .


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these chinese financial officials and hong kong brokers are hoping to expand china 's nascent stock markets .


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`` of course , this may be possible only because our economy has undergone 10 years of reform , '' says a chinese participant .


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these two scenes illustrate the main forces behind the continued survival of china 's communist party : ancient behavior patterns and modern business practices .


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and with 10 years of economic reform under its belt , china has an economic system that is light years ahead of eastern europe or the soviet union .


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china 's grizzled old-guard communists are clearly shaken by the sudden collapse of communism in the soviet union and elsewhere .


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but in the long run -- which in china means after paramount leader deng xiaoping , age 87 , and his few remaining revolutionary contemporaries pass on -- the party 's survival is in real peril .


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unless it changes course , china 's communist party is poised to be destroyed by the very forces that keep it in power today .


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china is now locked into contradictory patterns : 1980s economics and 1940s politics .


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in the 1980s , china was moving from doctrinaire marxism into a sort of market-oriented , soft-authoritarian system that could have evolved into a distinct ideology of its own -- call it chinaism .


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`` since tiananmen , the party has reverted to all this heavy ideological propaganda that has nothing to do with the reality of life here today , '' says a hong kong businessman with almost two decades of experience in china .


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people with party connections say the failure of the hard-liners ' coup in the soviet union has served to heighten the post- tiananmen paranoia of china 's leaders .


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after the coup failed , the historian says , china 's leaders launched a campaign to test the loyalty of senior cadres in 16 central government and party departments .


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hardly anyone believes it , but the party does n't want to give anybody a chance to admit to each other what everybody is thinking . ''


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during the 1980s , china had no trouble talking communism while moving toward capitalism .


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during the days of zhao ziyang , the moderate party chief deposed after tiananmen , china explored financial innovations with a helter-skelter style and enthusiasm that led to rampant corruption and boom-bust cycles .


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these companies , as well as enterprises with foreign investment , are the only dynamic part of china 's economy .


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while russians waited in food lines , china 's citizens in the 1980s enjoyed economic growth that averaged 9 % a year .


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mr. li , a russian -trained hydrologic engineer , vows to save state industry as the core of china 's system .


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it also spent about $ 5 billion a month on loans to state factories , some two-thirds of which are believed to lose money .


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workers saved 40 cents of every dollar earned last year .


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chinese banks have about $ 190 billion in savings deposits , a sum equal to 15 months ' salary for each person of working age in china .


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instead of putting this money to use by lending it to entrepreneurs , the government runs ever-larger deficits as it subsidizes state industry .


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mr. zhu is criss-crossing china making speeches about how state-owned factories , which employ about one-third of china 's 150 million urban workers , must turn a profit or shut down .


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but he has no authority to close plants , and none have shut .


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but the government has done little to create a social safety net of unemployment and retirement benefits that would allow factory closures .


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so far , mr. zhu 's main task appears to be figuring out how to spend $ 105 billion that mr. li has earmarked for upgrading equipment in state factories over the next five years .


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when criticized for continued political repression since tiananmen , china 's leaders suggest they are following the model of taiwan , south korea and singapore by keeping a tight rein on politics while relaxing economic policies .


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during the recent stock market conference at the palace hotel , for example , the participants were discussing the possibility of allowing foreigners to buy shares on china 's two legal stock markets , in shanghai and shenzhen .


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despite a great demand for stocks , however , and the desire of many state companies to raise capital by listing , china still has fewer than two dozen listed shares .


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`` the chinese political elite have yet to reach the kind of informal historical compact that was reached in south korea and taiwan between the government and private entrepreneurs , '' says michel oksenberg , a university of michigan china scholar who talked with china 's senior leaders this month .


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we do n't even have the bare outlines of such an arrangement in china . ''


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indeed , while china is willing to allow almost anybody to become a street vendor selling vegetables or clothes , any sizable business has to be under some form of state control .


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often this results in the sons and daughters of china 's elderly revolutionaries being given a stake .


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judging by recent rhetoric , china 's leaders are quite worried about their country 's economic dependence on the outside world .


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u.s. - soviet tension had provided china with lots of running room in world affairs , but china 's role now is murkier .


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hardly a day goes by without a diatribe about `` peaceful evolution , '' meaning a western plot to subvert socialism by infusing china with capitalism .


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analysts say china would like nothing more than to hunker down and avoid the rest of the world for a while .


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this can be seen in the bruising battle in the u.s. congress each summer over continuing to give most-favored-nation status to china .


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china 's uneasiness with the u.s. was apparent at what was called a `` new international order '' seminar held in beijing early this month .


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a further boost could come from the ec 's internal market program , economic and monetary union , and the agreement for a 19 -nation european economic area .


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the survey , conducted last month and published in the berliner zeitung , showed that despite bonn 's spending tens of billions of marks for retraining and job-creation programs , 57 % of the respondents said bonn fell short of its aim to cushion the spread of unemployment .


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at the end of 1990 , monthly manufacturing wages in japan averaged $ 2,438 ; taiwan , $ 756 ; south korea , $ 726 , and hong kong , $ 685 ; and in malaysia , $ 260 ; thailand , $ 115 ; indonesia , $ 60 , and china , $ 45 .


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capitalistic impulses in china guangzhou will become the third chinese city to set up a stock market , mayor lei yu said .


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shanghai and the shenzhen special economic zone formed bourses earlier this year .


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in the first nine months , bank savings in guangzhou totaled 50 billion yuan -lrb- $ 9.28 million -rrb- , showing large funds available for investment , mayor lei said .


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meanwhile , the number of private firms in china has surpassed 100,000 , the china industrial times reported .


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the private sector has more than 1.7 million employees and total registered capital of 10.6 billion yuan .


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numbers are his profession , and those he unveiled at friday 's briefing clearly show why china 's leaders no longer treat capitalism as a dirty word .


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the latest figures make three major points : state enterprise is the loser in the chinese economy ; china has no choice but to further develop its stock and bond markets to soak up a glut of personal savings ; and population pressures give the country 's leaders no room for delay .


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for the first time since mao 's peasant armies marched triumphantly into beijing to found the people 's republic of china 43 years ago , the state sector of chinese industry is poised to be overtaken by the private sector .


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foreign-invested companies , private entrepreneurs and collective factories -lrb- often run by an individual entrepreneur who uses the name of a village or social organization to avoid political problems -rrb- are considered by economists to constitute china 's private sector .


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but industries directly controlled by the central government sustained a $ 5.7 billion loss , in addition to setting a record of $ 22 billion in delinquent taxes .


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premier li peng has made it a top priority to save state enterprises , which he calls `` the core of china 's socialist system . ''


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the government invested $ 65 billion in infrastructure and state-owned enterprises while dubbing 1991 as `` the year of quality , variety and efficiency . ''


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nonetheless , profits of solvent units of the state sector plunged 14 % .


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shortly after this 1992 propaganda line was unveiled , mr. deng made his chinese new year tour of china 's booming southern coast .


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according to china -backed newspapers in hong kong , mr. deng touted securities markets and made favorable references to employing `` capitalist measures . ''


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those numbers will be made public when china 's rubber-stamp legislature meets later this month .


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but he did say that the central government 's budget deficit is growing ever larger while the savings of china 's citizenry balloon .


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according to government statistics , individuals now have some $ 260 billion squirreled away in savings deposits , stocks , bonds and cash .


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the savings-deposit component alone totals 911 billion yuan -lrb- $ 166.8 billion -rrb- , a 30 % rise from the end of 1990 and an astounding 140 % rise from the end of 1988 .


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economists say the savings glut represents either a bomb or a blessing for china 's economy , depending on how the government handles it .


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if the money is channeled into economic development through bonds and stocks and long-term savings deposits , it could hasten china 's modernization .


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for the past two years , despite opposition from elderly marxists , even the moscow -trained mr. li has been allowing the steady expansion of china 's stock and bond markets .


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in 1991 , a total of about 25 billion yuan in bonds were traded in china , 40 % of this by individuals .


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meanwhile , experimental stock markets in shanghai and shenzhen , a special economic zone adjacent to hong kong , are listing new companies and selling a special type of shares to foreigners .


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government economists assert that this number is n't realistic because most of china 's unemployed are officially listed as `` waiting for work . ''


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however , from statistics issued by various government agencies and those appearing in state-owned newspapers and magazines , it is clear that population pressures are driving economic reform as much as financial necessity .


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according to the ministry of labor , with children of the cultural revolution baby boom now reaching working age , nearly 23 million people -lrb- 7.2 million in the cities and 15.6 million in the countryside -rrb- are expected to join the labor force each year for the next five years .


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mr. zhang portrayed it as a triumph that about 4.3 million new jobs were created in china 's cities and towns in 1991 .


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meanwhile , in mexico , where the population totals 80 million , the salary of a blue-collar worker is one-eighth that of a u.s. worker 's .


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in canada , where the population totals 25 million , the salary of a white-collar worker is about 30 percent lower than that of a u.s. worker .


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moreover , with a population of 1.2 billion , china has an unlimited supply of labor .


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moreover , what is worse is only 13 percent of the japanese working population , which totals 67 million people , is employed by these two industries and their allied industries .


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let us now look into these low-productivity industries that employ 87 percent of the working population .


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i am really impressed that japan has survived until now despite 87 percent of its working population being `` inefficient . ''


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japan has survived because the `` efficient '' population who represent no more than 13 percent of the working total have shouldered a heavier tax burden and have tolerated increased costs of living in the form of invisible taxes in order to recover the loss caused by these `` inefficient '' people .


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the low-productivity industries , which employ 87 percent of the working population , used to exert strong pressure on the government .


Question: who killed martin luther king ?

after nearly two decades in prison for the assassination of the rev. martin luther king jr. , james earl ray says he would trade places with the hostages in lebanon .


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in a bizarre allegation , anderson said the same photo analysts also concluded that a picture of three hobos near the shooting scene taken shortly after the killing appear to show watergate conspirator e. howard hunt and james earl ray , the killer of martin luther king jr. hunt denied that charge on the show .


Question: who killed martin luther king ?

james earl ray , who pleaded guilty to assassinating the rev. martin luther king jr. , says he was framed to cover up an fbi plot to kill the civil rights leader and wants the government to reopen his case .


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james m. brown , chairman of the tennessee voters council and a member of the dr. martin luther king jr. state holiday committee , called ray 's parole hearing `` cruel , dangerous and shameful , '' and said he would ask gov. ned mcwherter to call it off .


Question: who killed martin luther king ?

in 1969 , james earl ray pleaded guilty in memphis , tenn. , to the assassination of civil rights leader martin luther king jr. ray later repudiated that plea .


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martin luther king iii , a son of the slain civil rights leader , said the execution of king assassin james earl ray `` would not bring my father back. ''


Question: who killed martin luther king ?

many episodes concluded with requests for information on the fbi 's most-wanted list , including a 1968 appeal for martin luther king assassin james earl ray .


Question: who killed martin luther king ?

in 1969 , james earl ray pleaded guilty in memphis , tenn. , to the assassination of civil rights leader martin luther king jr. -lrb- ray later repudiated that plea . -rrb-


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the rev. martin luther king jr. leans over a balcony railing at the lorraine motel .


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but who killed the 39-year-old civil rights leader and winner of the nobel peace prize ?


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`` when i started back to my room i saw a police roadblock had been set up ; it was about that time that i heard on my car radio king had been shot and the police were looking for a man in a white mustang , the same kind of car i was driving , so i took off for atlanta . ''


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he also says raoul , whom he describes as a blond man with a latin american accent , set him up to be framed for king 's murder .


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`` king was just another politician to me , '' he said .


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`` if i had been buying it to kill king , you can bet i would n't have bought it at a gun shop .


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`` i personally stood in that flophouse bathroom and looked across to the motel balcony where the rev. king was standing when he was shot .


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roselli , who was cooperating with a senate investigators when he was killed in 1976 , told anderson and others that he learned of the alleged conspiracy through mob sources .


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the program also presented a private company 's computer enhancement of photographs of kennedy , concluding that the shot that killed him was fired from the front .


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king was in memphis the day of his assassination to support a strike by city sanitation workers seeking higher pay .


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williams said king was convinced that hoover 's fbi was plotting his death .


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he noted the hearing in january would coincide with the jan. 16 holiday honoring king 's birthday .


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in 1629 , england 's king charles i dissolved parliament .


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a daughter of sen. robert f. kennedy and a son of martin luther king jr. helped launch a campaign against capital punishment on friday , saying the death penalty will not bring their slain fathers back to life .


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they wo n't bring back my father , they 'll only take someone else 's father , '' said m. kerry kennedy of boston , who was 8 when her father was killed in 1968 .


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other speakers during a meeting at the martin luther king jr. center for nonviolent social change urged religious leaders to become more active in mobilizing their congregations against the death penalty .


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friday 's session opened with delbert tibbs , a former florida death row inmate , carrying a lighted torch from king 's tomb into an auditorium of the king center .


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i would say the portrayal -lrb- on these shows -rrb- gives a sense to the american public of the difficulties we face in trying to bring these people back. ''


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the show starred efrem zimbalist jr. as the inspector lewis erskine , and the show never failed to portray the fbi in anything but a glowing light .


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mancuso , played by robert loggia , was portrayed as a toss-out-the-book maverick , marking time for his retirement , when politically motivated fbi bosses gave him an impossible assignment because they were sure he would fail .


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the book , `` who killed martin luther king ?


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king comments , `` i 'm totally shocked .


Question: who is the greek god of the sea ?

the planet neptune is named for the roman god of the sea , known to the ancient greeks as poseidon. ; announcement by telegram ; the six neptunian moons discovered by voyager 2 were named naiad and galatea , both water nymphs ; thalassa and larissa , both lovers of poseidon ; proteus , one of the god 's sons ; and despina , a daughter . ;


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in `` triangle , '' barbara bloom scribbles triangles and equations -lrb- perhaps relating to the greek `` golden mean '' -rrb- on the mat surrounding a photograph of people looking at antique sculpture in a museum .


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but their ranks do include such unexpected delights as john chamberlain 's tiny `` howling excess , '' a squirming mass of gold , silver , purple and orange squiggles and cy twombly 's `` untitled -lrb- proteus -rrb- , '' a jagged gasp of irregular strokes of oil stick that seems to metamorphose -lrb- like the greek sea god -rrb- from vegetable to animal form .


Question: who is the fastest swimmer in the world ?

nick gillingham , the world 's fastest man this year , and adrian moorhouse - defending the title he won in seoul four years ago - could only finish 7th and 8th respectively .


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hungarian swimmer norbert rozsa 's current world record of 61.33secs


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evans was n't sure she was good enough to be a top swimmer until she went to the goodwill games in 1986 and barely missed making the world team .


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swimmer jon sieben of australia , who broke the olympic and world records for the 200-meter butterfly at the 1984 olympic games in los angeles , announced his return to the sport less than 12 months after retiring .


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he swam the fastest 200 meters in the world the year before , '' said ballatore , who was oppel 's guest coach in seoul .


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sanders ' clocking of 2 minutes 9.46 seconds in the 200-meter butterfly was the second -fastest ever by an american and the fastest in the world in 1990 .


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sanders ' clocking of 4 : 39.22 is the fastest in the world this year .


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organizers hoped for a world record , but the fastest time was hansen 's 23.08 , well off jager 's world-record 21.81 .


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when the race was over , housman 's time was 14 minutes 53.59 seconds , which was 1.17 seconds under soviet swimmer vladimir salnikov 's world record of 14 : 54.76 .


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evans , the world 's fastest woman in the 400 - , 800- and 1 , 500-meter freestyle , will be accompanied by cardinal teammate summer sanders , who won the 200 butterfly in perth. ;


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ex- cal swimmer matt biondi , who holds the world mark in the 100-meter freestyle , decided not to enter the spring nationals and will instead use his exemption as a member of the u.s. team at the worlds to qualify for future national teams based on his times at perth. ; jenner gets joyner -kersee : jackie joyner-kersee , world-record holder in the heptathlon , says she will compete at the bruce jenner classic on may 25 at san jose city college . ; joyner-kersee , who will be concentrating this year on the athletics congress national meet in new york in june and the world track and field championships in tokyo in august , withdrew from last year 's jenner meet with an injury. ;


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that became the mark stewart had to beat in a national championship meet to claim stupak 's unprecedented -- in swimming -- bounty , which was posted for any gold swimmer to break a world mark before the barcelona olympics in '92 . ;


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nine of the fastest times ever had been set within the past 12 months , so that nelson mandela 's presence in the vip box merely added to the electric atmosphere at poolside .


Question: who is the fastest swimmer in the world ?

in 1991 the 11 -strong hungarian squad broke six world records , while the rest of the world 's swimmers managed only eight between them .


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moorhouse 's muscular style seems to have been adopted by dmitri volkov of the former soviet union , who set the fastest qualifying time of 61.74sec .


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shaven-headed diebel , 22 , had set the second fastest 100m time of 1992 and looked aggressively determined .


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britain 's favourite female swimmer , sharron davies , is also struggling .


Question: who is the fastest swimmer in the world ?

i 've traveled all around the world free .


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Question: who is the fastest swimmer in the world ?

in 1986 he swam the butterfly leg of the winning 400-meter medley relay at the world championships in madrid .


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said ucla coach ron ballatore : `` he was a quiet leader the first three years , but this year you hear more than ever before .


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goodell won two gold medals at the 1976 montreal games in world record times while still in high school .


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`` i was concerned about craig in the fall , '' ballatore said .


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when he is recognized on campus as the olympic swimmer , he squirms .


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she was the first female swimmer to hold three world records at one time since debbie meyer held four in 1968 .


Question: who is the fastest swimmer in the world ?

the last female swimmer to hold three was kornelia ender of east germany in 1976 .


Question: who is the fastest swimmer in the world ?

she was the first american woman swimmer to hold three world records at one time since debbie meyer held four in 1968 .


Question: who is the fastest swimmer in the world ?

the last women swimmer to hold three was kornelia ender of east germany in 1976 .


Question: who is the fastest swimmer in the world ?

i 'm a distance swimmer ; there 's no way i could beat the best in the world in the 100-meter anything .


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don gambril has been named coach of the men 's team and dick shoulberg has been named coach of the women 's team for the pan pacific games , the alamo cup and the world cup meet to be held in australia in january .


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hoping for at least one world record friday to give goodwill games ii credibility as a world-class athletic competition on its opening day , organizers were rewarded for their blood , sweat and deficit-spending with three .


Question: who is the fastest swimmer in the world ?

no other swimmer had improved the record in the event by more than that since 1976 .


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lopez 's time earned a european record , a first for a spanish swimmer .


Question: who is the fastest swimmer in the world ?


Question: who is the fastest swimmer in the world ?

he said the pain has been eased by the three world records he has set since then in the event .


Question: who is the fastest swimmer in the world ?

darnyi set the world record of 4 : 14.75 .


Question: who is the fastest swimmer in the world ?

`` what he 's done is n't out of my ballpark yet .


Question: who is the fastest swimmer in the world ?

swimmer of the year the last two years .


Question: who is the fastest swimmer in the world ?

was no threat to the world record -- 4 : 03.85 -- that she set in winning the gold medal in seoul .


Question: who is the fastest swimmer in the world ?

she was about as burned out as a swimmer can get when she scratched from the 200 during the u.s. olympic trials last summer in her own university of texas pool and then , after finishing fourth in the 100 in seoul , scratched from the medley relay .


Question: who is the fastest swimmer in the world ?

`` it was n't really horrible being at the olympics , but things were really different for me once i was a world record- holder .


Question: who is the fastest swimmer in the world ?

brent lang of club wolverine , a member of the 1988 olympic team as a relay swimmer , won the 100-meter freestyle in 50.17 .


Question: who is the fastest swimmer in the world ?

the world record- holder in the 100-meter freestyle in 1975 , he did not qualify for the olympic team in 1976 .


Question: who is the fastest swimmer in the world ?

but some coaches contend that the early selection process penalizes the `` hot '' swimmer , the one who peaks at the trials and continues to pick up speed through the olympics .


Question: who is the fastest swimmer in the world ?

the world championships team was selected in early august and will compete jan. 7-11 in perth , australia .


Question: who is the fastest swimmer in the world ?

richard quick , coach of the u.s. national team and stanford women 's team , said he felt obligated to speak out after the chinese produced three times that rank no. 1 in the world this year and three others that are no. 2 during the competition at beijing .


Question: who is the fastest swimmer in the world ?

chen , however , offered several reasons for the success of the women as opposed to the men , including the belief that the fastest women can train against faster men while the fastest men have no one to push them .


Question: who is the fastest swimmer in the world ?

he says the average height of the chinese male swimmer is 5-11 , three inches shorter than the average height of male olympic finalists in 1988 .


Question: who is the fastest swimmer in the world ?

with regard to power events , the only world record the chinese women have is in the shortest event , the 50-meter freestyle .


Question: who is the fastest swimmer in the world ?

turned in by teammate hong qian represent the second - and third -fastest times in history behind the world record of 57.93


Question: who is the fastest swimmer in the world ?

quick fears steroid users will not be caught through the testing procedures at the world championships or the 1992 olympic games in barcelona , spain .


Question: who is the fastest swimmer in the world ?

`` human beings live in a world that does n't exist , '' he said .


Question: who is the fastest swimmer in the world ?

`` a world of worries and dreams that have not occurred yet .


Question: who is the fastest swimmer in the world ?

moreover , if she thinks ahead to this weekend 's u.s. open or the world swimming championships in january or the 1992 olympic games , she 'll go crazy .


Question: who is the fastest swimmer in the world ?

the fastest time by an american since tracy caulkins ' effort in the 1984 olympic games .


Question: who is the fastest swimmer in the world ?

the freshman distance freestyle swimmer from london , ontario , was born with wolff-parkinson-white syndrome , and has an extra muscle fiber connected to the upper and lower chambers of the heart that conducts impulses .


Question: who is the fastest swimmer in the world ?

her doctor told her it was only a nuisance that she might grow out of , but after loyola marymount basketball star hank gathers collapsed and died of a heart condition last spring , holliday 's mother , susan , ordered more tests for her daughter .


Question: who is the fastest swimmer in the world ?

cal and usc split the four relays , thanks to a strong finish by cal 's amy tidball in the last event of the meet , the 400 freestyle relay .


Question: who is the fastest swimmer in the world ?

tidball was caught by trojan anchor lisa dorman at the final turn , but tidball inched ahead in the last 10 yards .


Question: who is the fastest swimmer in the world ?

`` i just held my breath and it really speeded me up , '' tidball said .


Question: who is the fastest swimmer in the world ?

texas sophomore erika hansen will not be able to compete in the world championships because of a virus .


Question: who is the fastest swimmer in the world ?

coming meets -- international : world aquatic championships , jan. 3-13 , in perth , australia , includes diving , water polo and synchronized swimming .


Question: who is the fastest swimmer in the world ?

`` we will undertake every possible action to see that the record is acknowledged by the world governing body , '' craig mclatchey , executive director of the australian institute , told the sydney newspaper .


Question: who is the fastest swimmer in the world ?

housman , 18 , became the second swimmer to go under 15 minutes in the 1,500 .


Question: who is the fastest swimmer in the world ?

`` he is the type of swimmer who can make a program by himself , '' johnson said .


Question: who is the fastest swimmer in the world ?

because spitz is interested in just the one event , and possibly a relay , he enlisted the help of ucla men 's coach ron ballatore , one of the top sprint coaches in america .


Question: who is the fastest swimmer in the world ?

his world record in montreal , 54.27 seconds , stood until 1977 , when joe bottom swam 54.18 .


Question: who is the fastest swimmer in the world ?

the other finalists : raghib `` rocket '' ismail , football ; john smith , wrestling ; bonnie blair , speedskating ; teresa edwards , basketball ; eric griffin , boxing ; lynn jennings , cross-country ; lori norwood , pentathlon ; jill trenary , figure skating ; and donna weinbrecht , skiing .


Question: who is the fastest swimmer in the world ?

the next two swimmers who are eligible are assigned to the national team for the world university games in july in sheffield , england . ;


Question: who is the fastest swimmer in the world ?

the pan-am games do n't figure in her plans , partly because they 're scheduled too soon before the world championships , but also because of continuing concern among u.s. athletes over problems with setting up a drug-testing system in havana. ;


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breaking the ice : julie parisien 's giant slalom victory in waterville valley , n.h. , last week was the united states ' first world cup victory since retired ace tamara mckinney won a 1987 slalom. ;


Question: who is the fastest swimmer in the world ?

the four-year drought was the longest period in world cup history without a u.s. victory. ;


Question: who is the fastest swimmer in the world ?

eva twardokens of santa cruz was sixth and san leandro -native edith thys was 23rd . ; toni standteiner of olympic valley , a member of the university of colorado ski team , won a silver medal in the giant slalom earlier this month at the winter world university games in sapporo , japan . ;


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it is the qualifier for national teams to be sent to the pan pacific championships -lrb- edmonton , alberta , aug. 22-25 -rrb- , pan american games -lrb- havana , aug. 11-17 -rrb- and world university games -lrb- sheffield , england , july 15-21 -rrb- .


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it was an evening that also included the crowning of a new breaststroke queen -- a 14-year-old who swam the second fastest women 's 200 meters in history. ;


Question: who is the fastest swimmer in the world ?

anita nall of towson , md. , too young for a driver 's license and too slow last summer to qualify for the world championships -lrb- she won the consolation finals of the u.s. open -rrb- , swam a 2 : 27.08


Question: who is the fastest swimmer in the world ?

the u.s. women won their first world championship since 1978 last january , and the u.s. men made the meet in australia their sixth straight title. ;


Question: who is the fastest swimmer in the world ?

quick said the world championships were `` the major focus of the year for our premier athletes , and they were against the best athletes in the world .


Question: who is the fastest swimmer in the world ?

although there are doubters -- notably '84 olympic gold medalist rowdy gaines , now a television commentator -- that the world championships and this week 's strong performances at the u.s. swimming spring nationals are indicative of olympic success , many coaches such as quick see the united states at the brink of greatness. ; 'you just do n't know ' ; `` a 16 - , 17-year-old girl who set the world on fire in january of '91 could be over the hill by the time march -lrb- date of the olympic trials -rrb- rolls around in '92 , '' gaines said .


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nall was n't even on the u.s. team at the world championships .


Question: who is the fastest swimmer in the world ?

he was n't at the world championships , either. ;


Question: who is the fastest swimmer in the world ?


Question: who is the fastest swimmer in the world ?

`` i got it handed to me nicely and decisively by the fastest guy in the world , '' spitz said .


Question: who is the fastest swimmer in the world ?

he enlisted the help of ucla swimming coach ron ballatore .


Question: who is the fastest swimmer in the world ?

ballatore agreed with spitz that nerves were a factor in the race. ;


Question: who is the fastest swimmer in the world ?

`` i feel that if he were to have relaxed more and kept his stroke he would have done a lot better , '' ballatore said .


Question: who is the fastest swimmer in the world ?

neither spitz nor ballatore disclosed practice times , but spitz said he has swum at least a second faster in practice and believes he can do so in his next match race. ;


Question: who is the fastest swimmer in the world ?

above his own world mark , and a couple hours later jeff rouse , a bespectacled stanfordian , missed his 100-meter backstroke record by .14-second , at : 54.07 .


Question: who is the fastest swimmer in the world ?

qualifiers included 27-year-old pablo morales , whose 1984 world record in the 100-meter butterfly still stands but who failed to qualify for the '88 team , and david berkoff , 25 , a silver medalist in the 100-meter backstroke at seoul who disgustedly quit the sport for a time after the underwater technique he 'd pioneered was banned .


Question: who was the president of vichy france ?

justice minister albin chalandon compared the president 's relationship with the french to that of marshal philippe petain , head of the vichy france government that collaborated with the german occupation in world war ii .


Question: who was the president of vichy france ?

in 1945 , the former premier of vichy france , pierre laval , was executed .


Question: who was the president of vichy france ?

france observed the 50th anniversary of the formation of the collaborationist vichy government tuesday and honored the parliament members who opposed marshal philippe petain 's ascension to power .


Question: who was the president of vichy france ?

in august 1944 , as allied forces swept through france , petain fled vichy and was arrested , then was allowed to leave for switzerland .


Question: who was the president of vichy france ?

though coincidental , the death of bousquet and the introduction of a remembrance day for vichy 's victims have dramatised a national dilemma for france in which history , morality and politics each plays a part : the dilemma of whether vichy , the wartime government of marshal philippe petain , which sought to lead a defeated and part-occupied france along the 'way of collaboration ' with hitler , is a chapter of french history best remembered , or best forgotten .


Question: who was the president of vichy france ?

they still have difficulty facing up to what happened between the fall of france in 1940 and the liberation of paris in 1944 , when the vichy government of marshal petain submitted to the nazi victors .


Question: who was the president of vichy france ?

the french , known for fickleness in politics and love , have become so enamored of president francois mitterrand that they affectionately call him uncle and his following often is compared to a cult .


Question: who was the president of vichy france ?

the rock star renaud sponsored a similar ad , urging the president to `` hang in there. ''


Question: who was the president of vichy france ?

`` always in france there is the role of the providential man , '' he said in a telephone interview .


Question: who was the president of vichy france ?

as a president sharing power with a conservative premier , mitterrand has a high profile without the blame for unpopular government policies .


Question: who was the president of vichy france ?

`` he is a president who does n't govern , '' julliard said .


Question: who was the president of vichy france ?

one of many recent polls indicated 61 percent of french people want mitterrand as president , 48 percent prefer barre and 40 percent favor chirac .


Question: who was the president of vichy france ?

`` if mitterrand is not officially a candidate , it is to make himself desired , '' wrote serge july , editor of the leftist newspaper liberation , reflecting the view that the president 's refusal to declare himself is a political tactic .


Question: who was the president of vichy france ?

in 1966 , president lyndon b. johnson signed a bill creating the department of transportation .


Question: who was the president of vichy france ?

in 1966 , president lyndon johnson signed a bill creating the department of transportation .


Question: who was the president of vichy france ?

three of the legislators who voted `` no '' survive , and two attended commemorations at vichy 's grand casino , where the vote was taken .


Question: who was the president of vichy france ?

malhuret also said france should be vigilant in countering a resurgence of racist and anti-semitic rhetoric `` such as we heard before the war. ''


Question: who was the president of vichy france ?

he was convinced germany would win the war and that france had no alternative but to cooperate with hitler .


Question: who was the president of vichy france ?

france 's government , including parliament members , had fled from paris as german forces approached , going first to tours on june 10 , then to bordeaux on june 14 and two weeks later to vichy , a tranquil health spa .


Question: who was the president of vichy france ?

since the war , vichy has struggled to live down its association with nazi collaboration .


Question: who was the president of vichy france ?

in the 1930s , the town ranked as france 's no. 1 mineral springs resort .


Question: who was the president of vichy france ?

malhuret described as `` irritating '' the link between vichy and the collaborationists .


Question: who was the president of vichy france ?

`` if the town of vichy was partly responsible , it would be less irritating , '' he told the french news agency agence france-presse .


Question: who was the president of vichy france ?

nobody in vichy went out in search of the government and the assembly . ''


Question: who was the president of vichy france ?

the vichy government received little in return for its collaboration , exporting goods and labor to germany in exchange for the privilege of running day-to-day administrative affairs .


Question: who was the president of vichy france ?

only two -fifths of france was under vichy 's jurisdiction , the rest was occupied territory .


Question: who was the president of vichy france ?

he returned voluntarily to france in april 1945 , was tried for treason and sentenced to death .


Question: who was the president of vichy france ?

the laws met only utter silence from the french people , '' said former justice minister robert badinter , who presided over the daylong symposium on `` the vichy laws . ''


Question: who was the president of vichy france ?

`` vichy was obsessed with taking measures against jews , '' badinter told about 250 people at the conference .


Question: who was the president of vichy france ?

`` the vichy laws , '' named for the vichy government that controlled unoccupied france and territories from 1940 to 1943 , prevented france 's 350,000 jews from holding public office , teaching , attending university , owning stores and working in the media .


Question: who was the president of vichy france ?

in all , 76,000 jews were deported to death camps from france .


Question: who was the president of vichy france ?

`` the jewish laws did not come out of the blue because anti-semitism existed in france well before the german victory in june 1940 , '' said henri amouroux , a historian at the symposium , sponsored by the center for contemporary jewish documentation and the sons and daughters of jews deported from the france .


Question: who was the president of vichy france ?

thousands of jews , chased out of poland and austria , fleeing the nazis , came to france and were accused of taking jobs , '' he said .


Question: who was the president of vichy france ?

historians say the vichy laws were a cornerstone of a right-wing ideology that sought to undo the liberalizing , human rights-oriented reforms of the french revolution .


Question: who was the president of vichy france ?

`` one week later , thanks to the vichy laws , the french police requisitioned the store as a jewish store , and sold it to a non-jewish person , '' mrs. ewenczyk , 78 , recalled .


Question: who was the president of vichy france ?

the vichy government , named for a city in central france , was never recognized by the allies .


Question: who was the president of vichy france ?

the nazis annulled the armistice with vichy after the allies invaded north africa in november 1943 and occupied france .


Question: who was the president of vichy france ?

president francois mitterrand and four senior government ministers today begin a four-day tour of israel and jordan , in an attempt to rebuild france 's weakened influence in the middle east .


Question: who was the president of vichy france ?

he will visit israel for the first time since 1982 , when mr mitterrand was the first serving french president to do so , thus opening a reconciliation between the two countries .


Question: who was the president of vichy france ?

france has accordingly started to play an important part in encouraging talks on economic matters between the two sides , having hosted last month an economic conference of israelis and palestinians in paris .


Question: who was the president of vichy france ?

relations between mr francois mitterrand and france 's governing socialist party have sunk to an all-time low in the past few weeks as the president prepares for life after the socialist administration .


Question: who was the president of vichy france ?

the socialists , meanwhile , are said to be resigned to growing apart from an ailing and unpopular president , who might not last the course until the end of his mandate in spring 1995 .


Question: who was the president of vichy france ?

while nobody in france is as clever as mr mitterrand in dividing the right-wing opposition , politicians on both sides suspect he is equally keen on tripping up his own party .


Question: who was the president of vichy france ?

if the case gets through its complex administrative process , which it easily could , the chief defendant some time early next year would be none other than mr laurent fabius , the party first secretary , until recently regarded as the president 's chosen dauphin .


Question: who was the president of vichy france ?

the blood scandal is only the most dramatic of a series of clashes between the president and his party .


Question: who was the president of vichy france ?

other examples include socialist mps ' recent refusal to accept mr mitterrand 's plans to ban business donations to political parties , and the president 's encouragement of generation ecologie , led by a former environment minister in the socialist government , which two weeks ago turned its back on the socialists by forming an electoral pact with france 's other main ecology party , the verts .


Question: who was the president of vichy france ?

if the deranged killer of rene bousquet , the former vichy government police chief , acted criminally in the eyes of the french authorities , it must also be said that he acted conveniently .


Question: who was the president of vichy france ?

bousquet 's murder on june 8 came barely a month before france 's first annual day of official remembrance for victims of vichy 's 'racist and anti-semitic persecutions . '


Question: who was the president of vichy france ?

he displayed to his end a grim confidence that he would never be required to face trial for his part in the deportation of some 75,000 jews from france to the nazi death-camps .


Question: who was the president of vichy france ?

in the course of a short and solemn speech , the prime minister declared that france was 'in mourning , ' and repeated the promise given by president francois mitterrand that a monument would be erected 'to perpetuate the memory of what took place here . '


Question: who was the president of vichy france ?

bousquet had already walked free from one post-war trial in 1949 because the courts at that time were concerned with treason , not genocide , even though the leaders of vichy had furthered both causes .


Question: who was the president of vichy france ?

a half-century later , he was the last survivor of those who planned the worst of vichy 's persecutions .


Question: who was the president of vichy france ?

to that extent , his death has given one irreversible victory to those who think vichy best forgotten .


Question: who was the president of vichy france ?

but touvier was a relatively low-level figure , and is in any case charged with acting on the orders of the gestapo , not of vichy .


Question: who was the president of vichy france ?

to explain the last and decisive hesitations of french justice in respect of the bousquet case , klarsfeld and others have pointed a finger at president mitterrand , who worked for the vichy government from 1941-42 before entering the resistance .


Question: who was the president of vichy france ?

mitterrand reputedly met bousquet in vichy , and they moved in the same political circles after the war .


Question: who was the president of vichy france ?

it is , at any rate , an observable truth that the further the french president 's motives and actions extend into his past , the more impenetrable they become .


Question: who was the president of vichy france ?

only after a barrage of criticism from his friends as well as political rivals last november did the president finally concede that he would have to find a way of managing differently the 'contradictions of history . '


Question: who was the president of vichy france ?

in opposing a judicial reopening of the great questions of vichy , president mitterrand would also have been echoing the policy of france since the liberation .


Question: who was the president of vichy france ?

it was general de gaulle who recognised in 1944 that france could scarcely take its place among the victors of the second world war if it also acknowledged the realities of the armistice and the collaboration over which the vichy government had presided .


Question: who was the president of vichy france ?

to efface what had once been the substance of vichy , the gaullists substituted their insistence that the 'true ' france had never surrendered ; that the flame of legitimate government had been carried through its dark hour by de gaulle 's free french forces ; and that the mass of ordinary people remaining in france had manifested their loyalty by resisting the nazi occupant .


Question: who was the president of vichy france ?

it necessarily followed from the gaullist version of history that atrocities which had taken place in wartime france must have been attributable to germans , not frenchmen .


Question: who was the president of vichy france ?

the plain fact that the vichy government had devised and implemented a policy of jewish persecution , initially of its own volition and later as the french contribution to the nazi genocide , was - with its potentially devastating implications for france 's reputation - the most taboo subject of all , and one which the specially-convened high court of justice showed absolutely no disposition to pursue in its post-war trials of vichy officials .


Question: who was the president of vichy france ?

thus bousquet , among the last defendants to go before the court , faced no serious questioning about his role in the arrest and deportation of jews from france , and the documentary evidence in his prosecution file went unexamined .


Question: who was the president of vichy france ?

suppressing the shame of vichy helped restore the morale and the unity of france .


Question: who was the president of vichy france ?

those who attended the seminars were reminded that nazi germany had been able , with only 3,000 members of its own security services operating in france , to secure the arrest and deportation from france of 75,000 jews and 40,000 resistants , as well as to supply itself with 650,000 french forced labourers .


Question: who was the president of vichy france ?

had the french police refused to do the nazis ' work , germany would have been obliged either to commit much more of its own manpower to france , or else reduce the scale of its oppressions there .


Question: who was the president of vichy france ?

the victims of vichy were persecuted on french soil , by agents of a french government , in conformity with the french law of the day .


Question: who was the president of vichy france ?

can a formula be found by which the republic of france may respond honourably to the suffering of vichy 's victims , and yet still , as it believes it must , avoid identifying their tormentors at least to some degree with france itself ?


Question: who was the president of vichy france ?

according to jean-pierre chevenement , the former french defence minister , the danger of blurring the distinction between the 'vichy ' and the 'france ' of 1940-44 remains that france would then 'stand with germany , italy and japan in the fascist camp which lost the second world war .


Question: who was the president of vichy france ?

by going down that road , france would abdicate its place in the world . '


Question: who was the president of vichy france ?

if chevenement 's warnings appear exaggerated , they reflect well enough france 's acute sensitivity to its 'rank , ' particularly in relation to germany within europe .


Question: who was the president of vichy france ?

yet as the decades pass , and as death claims both the tormentors and survivors of vichy , the justification for denying vichy so absolutely must appear increasingly open to question , if the legacy and the lessons of vichy are to be rooted enduringly in france 's memory .


Question: who was the president of vichy france ?

in the view of alfred grosser , france 's leading political scientist : 'let us not make-believe that the vichy regime was a little island standing apart from french society , or that the ruling class of france went into hibernation until the parenthesis was closed and the republic could resume its interrupted life .


Question: who was the president of vichy france ?

'the victims of vichy , french and non- french alike , were indeed the victims of france .


Question: who was the president of vichy france ?

a france with a twisted expression , but a france which stands clearly within the continuity of its own history . '


Question: who was the president of vichy france ?

france nuyen is the playboy-marrying daughter , carrying her sadness behind a curtain of dark hair .


Question: who was the president of vichy france ?

'pedestrian ' is an understatement for this walking-wounded movie recreating the sad story of vichy france .


Question: who was the president of vichy france ?


Question: who was the president of vichy france ?

admittedly the french president did wait until the last days of his presidency and maybe his life , to come clean , but come clean he did in backing the now well-known book by pierre pean , une jeunesse francaise .


Question: who was the president of vichy france ?

he had befriended the man who had been the nazis ' manager of the holocaust in france , rene bousquet .


Question: who was the president of vichy france ?

one provincial paper thought the president could end his term with a clear conscience .


Question: who was the president of vichy france ?

there was alarm about the role of the press in france , but even that took different forms .


Question: who was the president of vichy france ?

those who expose unpleasant secrets in france do get into trouble .


Question: who was the president of vichy france ?

they like to think charles de gaulle was the presidential incarnation of france , but of course the truth is that mitterrand is the mirror of the nation .


Question: who was the president of vichy france ?

mitterrand symbolises the contradictory aspects of france 's recent past - the ideological opportunism and the unique nature of french collaboration with the nazis , the myths of the resistance , the creation of a successful modern state and the continuity of pointless minorities on the far left and far right .


Question: who was the president of vichy france ?

its weekly , national-hebdo , ran the headline , 'nothing to get excited about ' and reported that anybody who had read the far-right press would have been familiar with all mitterrand 's transactions with the vichy regime and he had done nothing wrong anyway .


Question: who was the president of vichy france ?

the curious fact is that france 's great figures , unlike mitterrand , always emerge from some glorious national salon des refuses .


Question: who was the president of vichy france ?

revelations that president francois mitterrand of france had murky links with the right wing before , during and after the second world war have sent the french political class into a buzz of shock and horror .