加强地理标志法律保护必要性之法理思考

地理标志除与普通商标一样有一定的区别性外,还具有特定的品质表彰功能。由于地理标志自身具有重要的商业价值等原因,各国都十分注重对地理标志进行法律保护。而实践中现存的种种问题以及世贸组织的加入更强调了当前在我国加强地理标志法律保护的必要性。     

The China–asean Free Trade Agreement And Taiwan

While China's move toward a FTA with ASEAN reflects Beijing's most recent foreign economic policy adjustment and represents a new stage in the nation's open-door policy, it inevitably produces significant impact on cross-Taiwan Straits relations. This recent development in China's foreign economic relations brings not only substantial psychological and real effects and pressure on Taiwan for its possible isolation and marginalization from the ongoing process of regional integration in East Asia, but also growing pressure exerted by the island's business community that fears being pushed into a disadvantageous position in competition with ASEAN companies in the ever expanding and lucrative market of the mainland. For strategic, diplomatic, and economic considerations in the face of this new challenge, Taiwan is pursuing counter-measures by searching for its own FTAs with other countries within and beyond the region.     

Enhance People-to-People Exchanges Promote Common Prosperity:on the Visit of Study Group of NGOs in Central and Eastern European Countries

<正>At the invitation of CAFIU,a joint study group consisting of representatives from NGOs,think tanks and media in Czech Republic,Hungary,Poland,Romania and Russia visited China from April 13th to 23rd,2015.The study group visited Beijing,Lanzhou,Zhangye and Shanghai.     

论完善巡视监督的重要意义及现实路径

党的十九届四中全会首次将党和国家监督体系建设纳入中国特色社会主义制度体系,使其成为国家治理体系和治理能力现代化建设的重要组成部分。同时,对党内监督重要内容之一的巡视制度提出新要求,要求重点加强对党的高级干部、各级主要领导干部的监督,破解“一把手”监督和同级监督难题,强化政治巡视,推进纪律监督、监察监督、派驻监督、巡视监督统筹衔接,完善巡视整改落实情况报告制度等。新时代,我们党对巡视制度的高度重视,使普通党员干部和人民群众成为权力制约与监督的坚实基础和依靠力量,极大促进了党风廉政建设,具有重要意义。     

United States Responses to the Soviet Suppression of Rebellions in the German Democratic Republic,Hungary, and Czechoslovakia

Under Presidents Dwight Eisenhower and Lyndon Johnson, the United States refrained from intervening during the three major Cold War crises in the Soviet bloc in 1953, 1956, and 1968. The uprisings in the German Democratic Republic and Hungary came at a contentious stage of the Cold War. In 1968 East–West relations were again groping towards détente and, the Czechoslovak Communist Party unleashed an ambitious reform agenda under Alexander Dub?ek. On 20 August, a massive military invasion by Warsaw Pact forces squashed the reform spirit. All three challenges to Soviet control on the periphery of its Cold War empire followed power struggles in the Kremlin and intimations of a slackening of the reigns of control in Moscow. Eastern Europe was terra incognita for most Americans, and the United States had never pursued an active policy in Eastern Europe. All three crisis scenarios were overshadowed by crises in other parts of the world—part of larger arcs of crises the superpowers were confronting simultaneously. The three crises also coincided, domestically, with intense presidential election politics. Washington ultimately respected the Yalta arrangements and tolerated the Soviet sphere of influence in Eastern Europe. Next to grudging respect for the Yalta outcomes, the ultimate spectre of mutual destruction in a nuclear war “compelled” the superpowers towards co-existence and, ultimately, in 1989, the satellite states had to liberate themselves.