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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If they're not hitting the week's plan, they have to do something.
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Mike was a prime mover in the contemporary China field -- in some respects, the prime mover -- for much of the past three decades,
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Last year, they did this in conjunction with the Super Bowl, and the main target was the U.S.. This year's target was Europe. It's probably as big a deal in Europe as last year's was here.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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So they're going to downplay Taiwan, they're going to downplay human rights.
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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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They had come close to the edge of chaos and looked over, and they didn't like what they saw, ... Now they were saying that China needs time to heal its wounds, that we'll have gradual change instead.