Word: jintao
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...enforce rules limiting each household to a single, registered animal no taller than 14 in. (35 cm). The drive sparked a rare public demonstration by hundreds of well-heeled Chinese, mostly young dog owners. Within a month, according to Hong Kong's South China Morning Post, President Hu Jintao had intervened, ordering the Beijing authorities to back off. It was the first time most Beijingers could remember a public protest drawing a direct intervention by China's top leader...
...graft last week, the international scandal over tainted Chinese products speaks more to the central government's inability to monitor what's going on in factories nationwide than of simple malfeasance by a few renegade Beijing officials. In many places, regional strongmen exert more power than President Hu Jintao...
...asking that demonstrators wear white - a symbol, they suggested, of the purity of the city's democratic hopes. It would have made a demonstrative change from the ubiquitous red Hong Kong and Chinese flags as the city marked - with parties, fireworks and a visit from Chinese Premier Hu Jintao - the tenth anniversary of the territory's return to China...
...starting a war. That's a tough sell, many in the region say - us-against-the-world paranoia has been at the center of the North Korean regime since its founding in 1948. But the Chinese have pressed the notion on Kim, in part because China's President Hu Jintao believes what George W. Bush has told him on this score: that Washington seeks a deal with Kim, not open hostility...
...quite happy to see China's president, Hu Jintao, included in the TIME 100. He has just completed his first term and during the past five years has successfully expanded China's reach around the world, building a good image of China's peaceful rise. But Hu's remarkable economic achievement also encourages the Chinese people to accelerate political reform. I believe he will consistently promote democracy throughout China's political system, although the pace will be slower than the growth of the economy. His wisdom and confidence in handling internal and external affairs are assets that will help...