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Bo's Fall Highlights China's Regional Governance Problem -- World Politics Review (subscription)
Bo's Fall Highlights China's Regional Governance Problem -- World Politics Review (subscription)

(2012-04-04) "It is common in China that regional officials are able to get away with a lot," Denny Roy, a senior fellow at the East-West Center, told Trend Lines. "They take the law into their own hands and are like mini-dictators: They are highly corrupt, help their friends and punish their enemies. They're not exactly public servants."

Given the size of the country, Roy explained, the central government is not able to oversee its provincial and local governments, which leads to problems of enforcement.

"It has always been a challenge in China to keep regional officials in line, and it has never been a flawless system," he said. "There is a tradition of regions feigning compliance with the central government, while to a large degree doing their own thing, and it is extremely difficult to bring all of the parts of such a big country into conformity."

Effective supervision of regional governments to ensure their compliance would require an investment that the central government in Beijing simply cannot afford, Roy said.

"They'd have to hire an army of overseers, and even then, once the overseers were sent away, they might get co-opted by local officials into taking a cut [for not accurately reporting] to the central government," he said.

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Bo's Fall Highlights China's Regional Governance Problem -- World Politics Review (subscription)
Need for continuity of democratic process stressed -- Daily Times
Need for continuity of democratic process stressed -- Daily Times

(2012-03-31) "Pakistan has a resilient society and only if its governance is improved, the gap between Pakistan's potential and its performance can be bridged. Currently Pakistan has several opportunities for change in the form of vibrant civil society, open and free media, rise of independent judiciary and huge resource base can be utilised for ensuring human development the country," he said."

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Need for continuity of democratic process stressed -- Daily Times
The Asia Pacific: Trade Opportunities for Agriculture and Food Producers from the Great Plains to the Pacific Northwest -- US Department of State
The Asia Pacific: Trade Opportunities for Agriculture and Food Producers from the Great Plains to the Pacific Northwest -- US Department of State

(2012-04-18) -- Also appears in: Congressional Documents and Publications, CQ Congressional Testimony, State Department Documents and Publications, States News Service

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The Asia Pacific: Trade Opportunities for Agriculture and Food Producers from the Great Plains to the Pacific Northwest -- US Department of State