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...Hu Jintao, the President and (a more important position) General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, wants to keep it that way. He came to power in November 2002 in the first political succession in modern China that took place without purges, late-night arrests or blood in the streets. That alone is a measure of China's new stability. The government's main focus: balancing growth between the go-go coastal areas and a sometimes shockingly poor interior, easing the movement of millions from farms to cities and ensuring that local officials do not succumb to corruption...
...good. But three years after Hu took power, the way in which he intends to secure stability has become apparent--and it is not what many foreign observers expected. Many hoped he would be a reformer, allowing alternative sources of power, like the media, regional governments, independent judges and prosecutors, to balance central control. As head of the party's school for top cadres from 1993 to 2002, he had encouraged the study of other societies going through profound dislocations. In power, however, Hu has come across as more of a communist traditionalist. Within the past six months, the party...
...promoting a living symbol for the anti-dam movement. Ge Quanxiao, a farmer from the Jinsha River area, stands to lose his home to a planned dam. Yu arranged elocution lessons for Ge and taught him to protect himself by invoking political slogans introduced by China's leader, Hu Jintao. He brought Ge to Beijing to address a United Nations Development Program conference on dams and plead for villagers' right to review settlement plans. Most of all, Yu armed Ge with information to take back to his fellow villagers. "We've survived wars and we've survived earthquakes," Ge tells...
...years of isolation, he edited the magazine China Today and wrote books like 1947's The Unfinished Revolution in China, becoming a Chinese citizen and remaining a loyal Party member even after his imprisonment during the Cultural Revolution. On the eve of his 90th birthday in April, Premier Hu Jintao praised Epstein for his "sincere affection for China and the Chinese people...
...Middle Eastern policy in the process. In the past year China's energy companies have signed deals for oil reserves in Africa, Iran and Canada. In Russia, Beijing has lobbied hard against Japan for a pipeline to bring Siberian oil east to China. And last week Chinese Premier Hu Jintao welcomed Uzbekistan President Islam Karimov to Beijing just weeks after the Uzbek military killed nearly 200 after unrest erupted in the Central Asian country. The U.S. has been critical of Karimov for his heavy hand. Not Beijing. Among the main reasons for Karimov's visit: to sign a $600 million...