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...NOTEBOOK China: Jiang Hangs Around Afghanistan: War on Drugs Milestones...
...With reporting by Andrea Dorfman/New York, Christobal Edwards/Santiago, Stefanie Friedhoff/Walpole, Maine, Helen Gibson/London, Mike Goettig/Kunming, Robert Horn/Bangkok, Frank Sikora/Birmingham and Jiang Xueqin/Wuxi
...than 100 nationalities attending, led by the French (because the incoming president of the International Federation of Accountants is French), the Japanese (because the outgoing president is Japanese), the Russians (because the Russians will use any excuse to get out of Russia) and 1,800 mainland Chinese delegates wearing Jiang Zemin glasses. It resembled the U.N. from the 1970s: heavy brows, bulky suits, unfashionable eyewear, few Americans, fewer women and even less hair. I felt uncomfortably attractive...
China’s transition to capitalism was just confirmed by this month’s 16th Communist Party Congress in Beijing, which included Chinese leader Jiang Zemin’s amusing sophistry on the subject of letting capitalists join the Party. But Harvard is just beginning to break with academic orthodoxy, which has a view toward capitalism similar to Marxist orthodoxy. The University has started to embrace making money off of academic research...
...Will Hu remain among them? Certainly he didn't spend his career rising to the top of the world's most populous country just to parrot Jiang's slogans. Eventually, he'll want to introduce his own ideas. "I think he's got two years," says an editor at a Party-run newspaper. "If he doesn't have a platform by then, he's lost his chance." The best Hu can hope for is that Jiang will surrender his position atop the military in March and his power will ebb slowly over the next few years. But it doesn...