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...recently Hu's leadership style has been at odds with the more liberal facets of his career?raising doubts that he intends to build on Zhao's legacy. At the heart of the distinction between what Zhao tried to do and what Hu appears committed to is the role of the Communist Party. Zhao spent his nearly 20 months as Party chief working to limit the Party's interference in institutions of government such as the courts, the state-owned media and local legislatures. Such competing power centers, he hoped, would bolster fledgling economic reforms by making government more transparent...
...Hu's approach is quite different. It is widely admitted both inside and outside the Party that China's astonishing economic growth in the past 15 years has been accompanied by growing social strains, such as a widening gap between rich and poor and an increase in corruption. But as was made plain in the communiqu? after a plenary meeting of the Party's Central Committee last fall?the meeting at which Hu pushed Jiang into full retirement?Hu sees the answer to such problems in a strengthened Party whose cadres control the workings of government. "Hu offers a Leninist...
...That would indeed appear to be the case. In an important speech in September to 194 members of the Central Committee that was never made public, Hu set out his stall. According to someone who read a copy, Hu said China would never have its own Gorbachev, referring to the Soviet Union leader whose commitment to openness and reform in the 1980s hastened the end of Communist Party rule there. In the speech, according to the source, Hu railed against people who "fly the banner of democracy and political reform" and said the Party must be "pre-emptive" and "strike...
...Hu's approach has been felt most keenly in the realm of public discourse. In recent years, China's media have wooed readers with expos?s of corruption in officialdom, while websites have buzzed with debates on sensitive topics like police brutality and the need for free expression. But since Hu's speech, those critical of the regime have been forced into retreat. Last fall, police shut down "A Complete Mess," China's most lively forum for political debate on the Internet, without ever explaining why. Then discussions of the forum's demise were banned from other websites. Propaganda officials have...
...Beijing these days, the key question is whether the chill in the air represents Hu's genuine convictions or just a tactical effort to burnish his hard-line credentials among political factions that do not completely support him. Before relinquishing the helm, Jiang installed important allies in the Party's bureaucracy who continue to be loyal to him and his powerful Politburo acolyte, Vice President Zeng Qinghong. The Party's General Office, for instance, which controls the daily flow of memos and intelligence, remains in the grip of Jiang appointee Wang Gang. Until Hu maneuvers more of his own people...