Ellis Krauss
Ellis Krauss
chinese dangerous economic far gets handling pattern poor popular rational
Popular nationalism and sometimes the Chinese government's manipulation of the issue, as well as Japan's poor handling of it over the years, sometimes supersede their rational economic interests. It's a dangerous pattern if it gets out of hand. So far it hasn't.
others party
He's purged the party of recalcitrant anti-reformers at least in one field, and others will get the message, too.
manage media project
You don't have to be young and handsome, but you have to be able to manage the media and project an image.
becomes image label large leadership leads number party people stands thus
Party label and leadership image become more important...and thus who leads the party and what the party stands for, which can be communicated to a large number of people only by media, especially TV, becomes a more important factor.
looking next people tempting
If you're looking for the next issue, it will be very tempting for people to say 'Let's do it now'.
call defying hesitant matter party policy prime shots
If Koizumi wins, his party is not going to be the old LDP, ... Koizumi has become able to call the shots and in the future, no matter who is prime minister, the back benchers will be hesitant about defying policy made by the leadership.