CSG news update -- 2007-07-26

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China Study Group news update

Letter accuses China's party of drift
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-china18jul18,0,6811467.story?coll=la-home-center
LA Times | 2007-07-18
Mark Magnier, Yin Lijin 
BEIJING — A rare open letter signed by 17 former top officials and conservative Marxist scholars ahead of a key party meeting accuses China's top leaders of steering the country in the wrong direction, pandering to foreigners, betraying the workers' revolution and jeopardizing social s...