Word: shangwu
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...When a research institute in Sichuan publishes a piece on vulnerabilities in the U.S. electrical grid, for example, is it just academic curiosity or something darker? Is China's accumulation of U.S. debt a temporary quirk of the global economy or an expression of the ancient Chinese strategy of shangwu chouti - let your enemy get on the roof, then take the ladder away? It's very hard to know. Chance and the future and what we do now will determine whether China is with us or against...
...last Friday, scores of police vans wove through the donkey carts on Liaoyang's streets. Workers were demanding the release of four leaders detained by police and the sacking of government official Gong Shangwu, a delegate to the National People's Congress?a dangerous appeal that smacked of political dissent. "It's the first time I've heard of worker demands going beyond economics and into politics," says Ching Kwan Lee, a sociologist at the University of Michigan who researches labor. "Now we have great power," said one worker, "especially if we stay united...