{"id":2649,"date":"2011-12-15T15:25:24","date_gmt":"2011-12-15T20:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goldstocksforex.com\/?p=2649"},"modified":"2011-12-15T15:25:24","modified_gmt":"2011-12-15T20:25:24","slug":"an-ex-ambassador-in-beijing-master-of-ping-ping-diplomacy-the-economist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatientinvestor.com\/index.php\/2011\/12\/15\/an-ex-ambassador-in-beijing-master-of-ping-ping-diplomacy-the-economist\/","title":{"rendered":"An ex-ambassador in Beijing: Master of ping-ping diplomacy | The Economist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">\u201cHere we know there\u2019s a reason why someone\u2019s pinged for corruption or someone\u2019s not pinged for corruption and usually there\u2019s something sits behind it, so when there\u2019s an anti-corruption campaign in Guangdong or Shenzhen, then it\u2019s a fair bet that that\u2019s somehow tied to elite politics, because why ping Person A and not B? And I think that is the context in which law is practiced here,\u201d [<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Geoff Raby, who from 2007 until this summer served as Australian ambassador to China<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">] said. \u201cThere is rule <em>by<\/em> law here\u2026But there\u2019s no rule <em>of<\/em> law. There\u2019s nothing that sits above the political processes of the [top leadership].\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;&#8230;.\u201cWe have never seen in world history, with Nazi Germany perhaps to one side, a global economic power that has stood so far apart from the international norms of social and political organisation, so it\u2019s something different. It really, really is different,\u201d Mr Raby said. He later assured me that when he uses this line in speeches, he throws in a mention of Nazi Germany to pre-empt the nitpickers of history, not as a point of comparison to China. That would be rather undiplomatic indeed.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/blogs\/banyan\/2011\/12\/ex-ambassador-beijing\">An ex-ambassador in Beijing: Master of ping-ping diplomacy | The Economist<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHere we know there\u2019s a reason why someone\u2019s pinged for corruption or someone\u2019s not pinged for corruption and usually there\u2019s something sits behind it, so when there\u2019s an anti-corruption campaign in Guangdong or Shenzhen, then it\u2019s a fair bet that that\u2019s somehow tied to elite politics, because why ping Person A and not B? 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