21. While Tung is unlikely to change his style, his victory may lead to wrenching changes in the pro-democracy movement. 22. Yet an article by Tony Carnes of Christianity Today reports that China is facing potentially wrenching changes as a result of its entrance into the World Trade Organization. 23. Activists complain they have failed to protect workers against widespread layoffs and other wrenching changes at ailing state firms. 24. But it also has become a focus for worries about the wrenching change from a planned economy to one based on market forces. 25. Critics say the wrenching changes that lie ahead represent a declaration of war against the poor. 26. Wrenching economic changes have visited countries from Algeria to Saudi Arabia, aggravating anger at corruption and repression endemic to regimes in much of the Third World. |
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