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...democratic aspirations. His former comrades, by contrast, had tried never to mention him at all. Zhao became a political ghost, but one with a rare power. The mere utterance of his name, everybody knew, could reopen debate about his ideas. Many Chinese had hoped that their current leader, President Hu Jintao, would someday invoke Zhao and nudge China toward an opening of its political system...
...Right now, that seems unlikely. Hu stayed well away from any commemoration of Zhao's death. Propaganda organs barred broadcast media from reporting Zhao's death and instructed China's official newspapers to bury a one-sentence notice of his passage on their inside pages. The government did agree to allow a memorial service at a Beijing burial ground where many senior leaders are interred, but Hu conveyed no message of condolence to Zhao's family. Hu instead spent the week launching a campaign to "consolidate the ruling status" of the Communist Party. His most significant comments in the days...
...Emphasizing the indoctrination of students?for that is what an improvement in political thinking means?is not the kind of reform many people expected from Hu. Although his rise to power betrayed little of his political leanings, Hu had left hints that he was more open to political change than his predecessor, Jiang Zemin. He rose through the ranks of the Party's more liberal organs, such as the Communist Youth League, helped terminate a crackdown on intellectuals in the early 1980s, and urged high-ranking cadres to study foreign political systems in the 1990s. Since assuming China...
...ambitious plan to build the largest urban arts and cultural district in Asia within a decade. Beijing itself may have prompted or even dictated the tone of self-criticism: last month in Macau, Tung and most of his cabinet stood uncomfortably on a stage as Chinese President Hu Jintao instructed the administration to "examine its inadequacies, and continue to raise its competence." Says Dr. Li Pang-kwong, a political scientist at the city's Lingnan University: "Tung wants to limit the scope of contention for the next two years...
...already have his answer. When Chinese TV maker TCL bought French company Thomson's television operations last year, China's President Hu Jintao insisted on presiding over the signing of the deal in Paris, says a Thomson executive. TCL's profits later dropped 69% in the third quarter. That hasn't discouraged the state-run People's Daily, which two weeks ago urged more companies to follow TCL abroad and "make China a strong country." Ma is worried that history could repeat itself. During Japan's economic bubble in the 1980s, cash-rich Japanese companies went on a U.S. buying...