dan maertens's List: Calculators

• local resident said they smashed a sign reading “Serve the People,” probably  the most famous slogan of the Chinese Communist Party.
• Inwardly, however, it is haunted by a sense that it is not truly loved, said  Kerry Brown, one of six overseas academics who attended three days of meetings  last week with officials of the major party organs.
• They don’t have the hearts of 99 percent of the population, and they are worried  about that,”
• Key reasons for its unpopularity are corruption, and its regular resort to  violence when people ask for more oversight of government, said Mr. Brown.
• Historically, violence has served them well,” he said.
• This place is too, too ‘black,”’ said another person over dinner, using a common  term to describe corruption. She also asked that her name be withheld, fearful  of retribution in a city where at least some people last week felt the slogan  “Serve the People” was better off smashed to the ground.

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• The stock exchange isn’t the only piece of U.S. infrastructure China is currently trying to buy. Chinese companies are buying up foreign businesses, including American ones, at a record rate: