China celebrated its increasing prosperity Thursday in marking the launch of a free-market revolution 30 years ago. President and Communist Party leader Hu Jintao urged more economic reform while vowing it would not lead to Western-style democracy. Hu entered the Great Hall of the People at the head of a line of China's top communist leaders - more than 6,000 party leaders and military officials who politely applauded throughout his remarks. Economic reforms have made China the fourth-largest economy in the world, but they have not led to a loosening of its authoritarian system. ...more

December 19, 2008

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR The Democrat Party's philosophy appears to me to be one of converting our country from a capitalist or consumer economy to a socialist or communist economy. ...more

October 22, 2008

Cubans waited hours in line for tickets, packed Havana's cinemas and watched with rapt attention as "The Lives of Others," a chilling account of East German secret-police repression of communism's doubters, arrived in the Cuban capital in December. ...more

January 20, 2008