politburo

Their Politburo is a lot less concerned with losing market share abroad than with losing mindshare domestically.

You could enjoy life as part of the politburo, it is objectively the rational way to go.

In theory those in the politburo were not rich, in practice they could do or get whatever they wanted.

Today's Chinese party politburo are primarily engineers and scientists who grew up during the cultural revolution, not the spiritual heirs to the earlier system.

The politburo made out, and so that's why they support it.

Yuan's value is subject to the policy of China's politburo.

In many ways the Politburo was a US cheerleader, they only challenged the US tactically while strategically accepting most of the propaganda more uncritically than US dissidents.

These politburo members own various industries in China.

Let's remember that Castro was begging the Soviets for a nuclear strike against the US and Khrushchev had to fight off a Politburo that wanted nuclear war during the crisis.

NK, with almost mythical god like rule form single person is way worse off than Cuba, where the politburo rules, followed by Iran, where the power is shared by large amount of clergy and secular government.

Also the British political system is far more responsive to the electorate than is the US system which famously has less churn among elected officials than the old soviet politburo.

I will do a more comprehensive study soon, but my comments about politburo members (especially late soviet ones) was meant to preempt such points as yours.

In theory, it was "the government of the people", in practice it was the biggest concentration of power ever in so few hands, the politburo.

Another trend I unfortunately observed recently where comments around the line of: "Don't link to this (the this being a blog entry by Andrew Sullivan, which is hardly controversial) since [paraphrased] it does not reflect the dogma of the HN politburo.

I claim that the Chinese politburo cares as much about "lifting millions of Chinese out of poverty" as the US Government cares about "reforming the campaign contribution process." What those two, apparently disjoint topics, have in common is that both are a threat to power of the people currently in power in the respective governments.

It's as planned as the Soviet economy was, but instead of the Politburo, the planning is coordinated by the priestly caste which sets the rules of commerce (e.g.

These Party members (usually Politburo) force out the Party Secretary and promise to get the worker's state back on track.

In one case, Beria picked up Tatiana Okunevskaya - a well-known Soviet actress - under the pretence of bringing her to perform for the Politburo.