Word: jintao
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...last year alone, three top Chinese leaders, including President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao, have made extended trips to the continent. Nor is the relationship simply one of political solidarity among developing nations: China's trade with Africa has quintupled since 2000 and its annual total is expected to hit $50 billion in 2006, and then to double again by 2010. China now imports about a quarter of its crude oil from Africa...
When China's President Hu Jintao appeared last weekend on a flag-bedecked dais alongside his predecessor, Jiang Zemin, and called for national unity, many Chinese instead heard evidence of discord...
...Party boss Chen Liangyu had multiple meanings. On one level, the purge of a prominent Politburo member-over allegations that Chen allowed associates to milk Shanghai's pension accounts to fund investments in the city's booming real estate-was widely seen as a political move by President Hu Jintao to consolidate power ahead of next year's Party Congress. On a second level, Chen's arrest, along with the news late last week that real estate speculation was also under scrutiny in other parts of the country, reflected Beijing's seriousness about taking China's overheated property markets...
...despite a nationwide anti-graft campaign instigated by President Hu Jintao, many Chinese aren't convinced that the Party is really serious about uprooting corruption. As the Xinhua article itself noted, an online poll by the People's Daily website, which carried the story, found that nearly 80% of respondents either thought the forced prison tour was "just for show" or would be ineffective in preventing the officials from illegally profiting from their positions. That is a distressing prospect for Communist Party Cadres, who remain keenly aware that rampant corruption was one of the prime motivating factors behind the huge...
...sometimes fruitless exercise. China watchers remain divided about just how centrally coordinated such actions are. In the case of Chen Guangcheng, for example, it is unclear whether his sentence was solely decided by local officials or sanctioned - even tacitly - by Beijing. Some speculate that China's President Hu Jintao is putting on a show of strength to bolster his relatively weak grip on the reins of power; the crackdown is seen as clearing the decks of potentially embarrassing dissenters before Beijing hosts the Olympic Games in the summer of 2008. The Chinese authorities are particularly sensitive to media coverage...