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...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...
...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...