查看更多>>摘要：I WOULD LIKE to rectify a number of mis-conceptions in Michael Fonte's essay "TheDPP Calls for Round Two" published in theOctober 2009 issue. Firstly, charges of apolitical vendetta against the DPP are ut-terly unfounded. The Special Investiga-tion Division of the Supreme Prosecutors'Office, which conducted investigations ofand ultimately indicted and prosecutedformer President Chen Shui-bian, was es-tablished during his presidency, and theprosecutor-general who oversaw the SIDwas appointed by Mr. Chen himself. TheSID waited until Mr. Chen's presidentialterm expired to initiate the prosecutorialaction against him only because a sittingpresident is constitutionally immune fromprosecution.
查看更多>>摘要：A former REVIEW contributing editor reflects on what made themagazine successful in its heyday, and why the passing of theregion's old elite makes producing regional media more difficult.T WOULD BE easy to attri-bute the demise of the FAR EASTERN ECONOMIC RE-VIEW to the shifting eco-nomics of the mediaindustry. After all, hundreds of newspapersand magazines have gone down the tubesin recent years under the combined weightof the Internet and economic recession. Butif that were the case, it would also be easyto identify the new and emerging outlets ofauthoritative Asian news and analysis thathad eaten the REVIEW'S bento box.
查看更多>>摘要：THE LIFE OF a contempo-rary China-watcher maybe measured in "progno-sis phases." These lastabout five years and comein only two flavors: ebullient and cataclys-mic. In my brief involvement with China,I have so far experienced three prognosisphases: "China Takes Over the World I(1992-1997)", "Oh My God, It's a Disaster I(1998-2002)" and "China Takes Over theWorld II (2003-2008)." There are nowstrong indications that we are entering"Oh My God, It's a Disaster II (2009-?)."
查看更多>>摘要：By cozying up to the Cambodian government, Thaksin Shinawatrais edging closer to a return to his motherland. Will his plan backfireand alienate him from Thais, or just reinforce existing divisions?
查看更多>>摘要：CHINA'S "ONE CHILD Policy"is the mother of all socialexperiments in our mod-ern era. Enforced by thepower of a police state forthree decades running, this astonishinglyambitious program aims to achieve noth-ing less than the wholesale transformationof childbearing patterns of the largestcountry in the world. Through locally de-termined birth targets, vigilant surveil-lance of prospective mothers, and statepressures ranging from the threat of jobloss to crippling financial penalties and in-voluntary forced abortion, the policy hasalready driven China's birth rate fardown—below the replacement level—inthe name of accelerating the country's eco-nomic development.
查看更多>>摘要：WHILE THERE HAS been a lull in the debate over"Asian values" since the1997-98 Asian financialcrisis, the concept never disappeared. The development of a region-al human-rights commission constitutes afresh battleground where competing viewsare playing out. As in the past, the main in-terlocutors on the side of cultural relativ-ism are Singaporean leaders and officials,but this time, opposing voices within South-east Asia have grown louder and more self-confident.
查看更多>>摘要：FIVE YEARS AFTER the dev-astating Indian Ocean tsu-nami of Dec. 26, 2004, littletrace of the disaster re-mains. The Reconstructionand Rehabilitation Agency for Aceh andNias (BRR) wound up operations in May,and policy makers have shifted attention tothe Indonesian province's longer-term de-velopment challenges.
查看更多>>摘要：BEIJING HAS BEEN actively courted in recent monthsas an indispensable part-ner in tackling a range ofstrategic issues, from theglobal economic crisis to Iran's nuclearambitions. Despite China's growing influ-ence in the world, however, CommunistParty leaders have expressed concern overthe country's deep deficit of "soft power."China may be able to throw its weightaround, but the world seems imperviousto its charm.
查看更多>>摘要：IN SPEECHES AND policy pronouncements over thecourse of this past year,President Barack Obama'steam has offered hints ofthe new president's approach to interna-tional politics. During his trip to China, hebegan to convert rhetoric into policy. What are those basic premises, andhow will they translate into Mr. Obama'sChina policy?
查看更多>>摘要：HAVING CONTRIBUTED several essays on the de-velopment of China's ju-diciary to the FAR EASTERN ECONOMIC RE- VIEW over the last five years, it is soberingto look back on the fate of those individualswhose plight we discussed. The sufferingsof these activists tell us much about the lackof progress to establish the rule of law.
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