Richard Baum
Richard Baum
Richard Dennis Baumwas an American China watcher, Professor Emeritus of political science at UCLA, and former Director Emeritus of the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies, noted for his many academic works on Chinese politics. Baum creditted Rhoda Sutherland of Oxford University with inspiring his interest in linguistics...
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Companies (retailers) are being very cautious about their guidance for the second quarter, so we're not completely taking it to heart that these (strong sales) results will carry through,
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I know people refer to this as Black Friday, but it's probably a Blue Friday. We think it's going to be a season that'll probably be not as strong as last year, but nonetheless we think the consumer is in pretty good shape.
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There was a sense of disbelief after June 4, ... People in China, even liberal intellectuals, were sobered by the crackdown and its ferocity.
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It's very mixed. When you get into an environment like this, the extremes get magnified -- the good do better and the struggling do worse. It's like quicksand.
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Ever since Tiananmen, of course, the U.S. has used human rights both as a barometer and as a weapon against China,
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There's more art than science to this. Put yourself in their shoes. You don't have a crystal ball. You don't know what to expect.
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The worst thing is to carry inventory over. Unless it's wine, it doesn't get better with age. It's basically better to sell it for 10 cents on a dollar than keep it.
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They shared the grievance that the government wasn't paying attention to ordinary people, that it was time to respond to the negative byproducts of economic reform. They considered the government to be arrogant, haughty and unresponsive.
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The one thing that everybody kind of has tucked into the back of their minds is that if there is some sort of event that affects a mall between now and Christmas. It's hard to say whether another plane crash like this is going to have much of an impact yet.
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So they're going to downplay Taiwan, they're going to downplay human rights.
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Zhao Ziyang, on the other hand, was very much at the centre of that particular storm, and thus will be harder to rehabilitate.
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It was a little bit slower than it has been, but consumer electronics and home furnishings are still very, very strong, ... If we were truly in a secular slowdown, we would see slowdowns in all categories.
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The students in the square rained on Deng's parade,
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If they're not hitting the week's plan, they have to do something.