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...should not ask who will outdo whom.' WEN JIABAO, Chinese Premier, on China and India's joint pledge to increase military ties and expand trade to $60 billion...
...Still, it is a sign of just how grave the problems are facing the world's largest dam that criticism is now coming from top government officials in Beijing, who previously had studiously avoided saying anything derogatory about the $180 billion project. In June, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao told a meeting of the State Council, convened to discuss the Three Gorges project, that solving environmental problems surrounding the controversial dam project should be a priority for the country. On Sept. 25, a group of senior government officials and scholars announced at a work meeting in Wuhan that the project...
...campaign that has brought down a slew of senior officials, including Chen Liangyu, party secretary of Shanghai, who is under arrest and reportedly awaiting sentencing for his alleged role in a scheme that channeled enormous sums in pension funds into private investment. Hu and his close ally Premier Wen Jiabao have also sought to shift growth from the coast to the interior and tackle China's dreadful environmental problems...
...That's just one example of the long-term impact of the government's focus on the Me generation. In an article in the official mouthpiece People's Daily published in February, Premier Wen Jiabao stressed that economic growth should take precedence over democratic reforms for the foreseeable future, a period that he appeared to indicate could stretch to 100 years. And yet for all its machinery of control, the party is vulnerable. Senior cadres from Wen on down have acknowledged in public that growing unrest in the provinces, as farmers clash with police over expropriated land or official corruption...
...while abiding by FAS guidelines. When controversial DePaul University Professor Norman G. Finkelstein came to Harvard Law School in 2005, many students shouted at and heckled the speaker, but no one was ejected, no one was arrested, and no charges were filed. Similarly, when in 2003 Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao was met by a protester who interrupted his speech shouting pro-Tibetan slogans and unfurling a Tibetan flag, they were removed from the auditorium without incident or arrest. There is no reason why HUPD could not have acted in a similar, appropriate manner this time.Making matters worse, HUPD attempted...