Authorities seek answers after train derails in Taiwan

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/201810/23/WS5bce5ab3a310eff303283e14.html

Guangdong China : 39 village leaders sacked for crime links

Police seized 31 guns and froze 2.54 billion yuan ($390 million) worth of assets after busting 25 secret-society organizations and 85 violent gangs in rural areas during the campaign.

Zhai Kaixia, head of drug enforcement with the Guangdong Provincial Department of Public Security, said police seized more than 8.5 metric tons of drugs after cracking down on 9,083 drug and related cases in the province in the first eight months of the year.

A total of 11,338 suspected drug traffickers, including 26 Hong Kong and three Taiwan residents, were detained.

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/201810/09/WS5bbbe77ca310eff303281230.html

Charles Wang, a technology company founder and former owner of the New York Islanders hockey team, died Sunday. He was 74.

Wang was the founder of software company Computer Associates, now called CA Technologies, based in Islandia, New York, and was CEO until 2000.

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/201810/22/WS5bcde364a310eff303283db0.html

China, ASEAN countries begin inaugural joint maritime drills

Eight warships set sail from the port of Zhanjiang, in China’s southern Guangdong province, with 1,200 military personnel taking part in the event, according to CCTV broadcaster. The navies of China and the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) agreed to hold the week-long maneuvers as part of efforts to promote stability and ease tensions across the disputed sea. Singapore, which is co-organizing the event, Brunei, Thailand, Vietnam, and the Philippines deployed ships to participate in the exercise, AFP reported. Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Myanmar sent observers.

https://www.rt.com/newsline/441959-china-asean-maritime-drills/

Deng Xiao Peng's thoughts on multi party system

But it looks like China succeeded by way of bringing together what we considered the worst in both opposing tendencies (liberal capitalism and Communist authoritarianism).

Years ago, a Chinese social theorist, with links to Deng Xiaoping's daughter, told me an interesting anecdote. When Deng was dying, an acolyte who visited him asked him what he thought his greatest act was, expecting the usual answer that he will mention his economic opening that brought such development to China.

To their surprise, he answered: "No, it was that, when the leadership decided to open up the economy, I resisted the temptation to go all the way and open up also the political life to multi-party democracy." (According to some sources, this tendency to go all the way was pretty strong in some Party circles and the decision to maintain party control was in no way preordained.)

https://www.rt.com/op-ed/441873-china-socialism-capitalism-zizek/