Word: jiabao
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...China's amicable stance toward its Asian neighbors was also on display earlier this month, when Wen Jiabao, China's smooth-talking Premier, traveled to an ASEAN confab in Bali. Instead of harping as usual about the Spratly Islands?tiny dots in the South China Sea that are claimed by China and several Southeast Asian nations?a smiling Wen instead urged greater economic cooperation through the establishment of a mutually beneficial trading bloc. Earlier this year, China also moved substantively to resolve a long-simmering border dispute with India?a big step for a nation that has had territorial disputes...
...sack Tung or even to accept his resignation: that would be an acknowledgment that they picked the wrong guy for the job, and it would also undermine the fiction that China does not meddle in Hong Kong's affairs. A reliable source tells me that when Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao visited Hong Kong on July 1 to celebrate the sixth anniversary of the handover, he told Tung to hold the line on the national security legislation labeled Article 23, and to stand by his deputies because "we need stability." (Wen made it clear he was speaking for Chinese President...
...Even Beijing seems confused. President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao have tried to color themselves as more responsive to the masses than their imperious predecessor Jiang Zemin, the man who anointed Tung. But at the same time, they've been careful not to cede too much authority. Hong Kong threatens to undo that careful balance between listening to what people want and caving in to their demands. Caught flat-footed by the scope of the protests and the discontent in Hong Kong, Beijing has blacked out on the mainland all news in local Chinese-language media of the historic...
...Since taking office in March, China's President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao have cultivated an image of baby-cuddling folksiness. Hu's and Wen's breaking of bread with peasants during official outings?not to mention eventually coming clean on SARS?are seen by some as evidence of the emergence of a new breed of Chinese leader...
...world have been affected, but our future will continue brightly." To show just how serious Shanghai is about keeping the virus at bay, the municipal government earlier this month mandated a limited quarantine on anyone coming from a SARS-infected area?a policy that runs counter to Premier Wen Jiabao's vow last month not to implement any extreme quarantine measures. But Shanghai's quarantine policy has not been rigorously enforced, as dozens of visitors from Beijing and Hong Kong continue to disperse into the city without a trace. Still, locals seem to think that Shanghai can beat...