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When the leader of the world's most populous country speaks, people listen--though it isn't always easy. Jiang Zemin, President of China, gives speeches loaded with fusty rhetoric, like "the primary stage of socialism" and "We will strive unswervingly to resolutely uphold Deng Xiaoping thought." His slicked-back hair, enormous spectacles and cryogenically fixed smile smack of the old-fashioned apparatchik. So wooden a leader is often in danger of being upstaged by his own podium...
WASHINGTON: Bill Clinton promised to "build bridge to the Twenty-First century," but he'll have to settle for a tightrope next week when he welcomes China?s Jiang Zemin for the most important Chinese state visit since Deng Xiaoping charmed Americans in 1979. "Clinton is dealing here with the biggest challenge facing the U.S. for the foreseeable future," says TIME State Department correspondent Dean Fischer. "It's a relationship that will develop well into the next century...
...this the full extent of the exploitation of political prisoners. As the famed dissident Harry Wu has noted, the Chinese regime is so gain-hungry (as Deng Xiaoping's famous slogan runs, "It is glorious to get rich") that it ekes profit out of political prisoners even after their death. The sale of organs of executed prisoners to foreigners willing to put up cash for a quick transplant is an approved practice in China. In life as in death, Chinese citizens are treated as government chattel...
...When Deng Ziao Peng came 18 years ago he was just beginning the reform process, and now the reform process has worked as a whole quite well," Vogel said. "Now there are a lot of issues as China becomes more involved in world affairs and trade that need to be dealt with by leaders of such importance...
...companies will be sold to their workers and to the public, and presumably to some foreign investors. Small enterprises, which make up 80% of the total, will be completely privatized, while the government will retain some stake in medium- and large-size firms. Beijing has come up with a Deng-style slogan for this devolution of power: "Take a tight grip of the big ones and let loose of the small ones." That process will result in the death of many inefficient firms that have been propped up by government loans and subsidies. "This is the first time the government...