FDI in China rebounds in September 2017.
FDI in China rebounds in September 2017. The average is once again above the psychological level of US$10 billion per month. Trend over the last… Read More »FDI in China rebounds in September 2017.
FDI in China rebounds in September 2017. The average is once again above the psychological level of US$10 billion per month. Trend over the last… Read More »FDI in China rebounds in September 2017.
Kids present children’s wear during the final of the third China (Zhili) National Children’s Wear Design Contest in Huzhou city, East China’s Zhejiang province, May… Read More »National Children’s Wear Design Contest in Huzhou
A tourist braves snow in Hami, Northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, May 31. A snowfall hits Tianshan Mountain in Hami on Sunday. [Photo/IC]
Two children stare blankly at a Chengdu blank-staring contest in Qingyuan, South China’s Guangdong province, on May 31.[Photo/chinanews.com]
About 1,000 parents burn incense to pray for good luck for their children taking part in National College Entrance Examination on June 7, before a… Read More »National College Entrance Examination
A promotional video for Beijing featuring Peking Opera plays at the Chinese pavilion at Milan Expo 2015 on Saturday. Some Chinese cities and provinces… Read More »Peking Opera plays at the Chinese pavilion at Milan Expo 2015
In today’s trending, parents take children to luxury villa to teach them to want lots of money, single mom hires “dad” for daughter on children’s… Read More »Luxury villa trip teaches children to want wealth
Shanghai FTZ hopes more recent university graduates stay to work The expanded China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone will loosen employment policies for overseas candidates… Read More »Trade zone eases rules for expats
GENEVA – The International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Monday released an assessment report by the Evaluation Commission prior to the IOC 2022 Briefing for IOC… Read More »IOC publishes evaluation report on 2022 bids
Robert Chow Yung (second from left), spokesman for the Alliance for Peace and Democracy, meetsthe media with fellow members at a news conference in Hong Kong on Monday. The alliance hasreceived more than 1.2 million signatures from Hong Kong residents in its campaign to support thegovernment’s electoral reform package. Roy Liu / China Daily For some political scientists, “democracy” means the right to vote in elections held every four,five years or six years. Perhaps countries such as Sweden and Switzerland practice a goodform of democracy. But in the world’s two largest democracies, the United States and India,contesting an election is a highly expensive affair. In a majority of cases, a candidate has tospend millions of dollars to have any chance of success. In India, many candidates cross the legal limit for total campaign expenditure in a single day.And even in elections to city councils, a serious candidate usually has to spend severalhundred thousand dollars. What this means in practice is, people without access to huge amounts of money have almostzero chance of getting elected. In other words, more than 99.5 percent of the population don’thave even the remotest chance of winning an election, simply because they don’t haveaccess to big money. In the US, the Supreme Court has ruled that billionaires and multimillionaires have the right tospend their money to promote candidates who can further their interests and oppose thosewho seek equal treatment for the rich and poor. The Supreme Court, in other words, hasgiven big money the legal right to influence elections, because that is what “democracy” is allabout. How can a candidate with no money compete for votes with a candidate with millions ofdollars to burn in his/her quest to “represent the people”? How many of the US Congressmembers are not millionaires? Perhaps not even one. Does that mean all American citizensare millionaires just because those who “represent” them are? The Indian province of Maharashtra has a constituency where most people are very poor. Yetthe politician who represents them is a billionaire who uses his political clout to help himselfand his friends accumulate more wealth, instead of fulfilling his duty of improving the lives ofthe poor who voted him to power. ChinaDaily