Word: jintao
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...Although America's relations with China are as comfortable as they've been in decades, President George W. Bush will have plenty to discuss with his counterpart, Hu Jintao. Yet the first thing he'll want to do is take stock of Hu himself?much as Bush searched for friendship in Vladimir Putin's eyes at their first meeting, in Ljubljana in 2001. Hu still hasn't visited the United States since assuming the presidency in 2003, and remains as enigmatic to Americans as he does to his own people. He has made three trips to Eastern and Western Europe...
...greatest gift Hu Jintao could give to Bush would be political reform in China. That would enable America's leader to embrace Hu as a moral equal and prevent human-rights abuses in China from roiling the relationship. A bit of political goodwill would also work wonders during the rough spots that inevitably crop up between the U.S. and China?such as America's bombing of China's embassy in Belgrade in 1999 and the deadly collision of American and Chinese military airplanes in 2001. But such reforms seem unlikely, at least in the short term. Hu has shown...
...TIME: What sort of conversation would you like to have with Chinese President Hu Jintao? Chen: First of all, I would like to congratulate him on taking over full leadership in China. Of course, we hope that the new leadership would make new contributions to democracy in China, to peace across the Taiwan Strait and to regional stability. We understand that the Chinese Communist Party and its basic policy toward Taiwan will not undergo any changes in the short term, and we dare not have unrealistic expectations. We do hope, however, that Hu Jintao will come up with new thinking...
...just as oil is seen driving American foreign policy, so too are China's geopolitical strategies increasingly influenced by the country's inability to meet its energy needs solely through domestic production. Last week Russian President Vladimir Putin began a state visit to China, during which Chinese President Hu Jintao was expected to press for the swift approval of several proposed billion-dollar, oil-and-gas joint ventures between the two countries, including a pipeline to connect Russia's oil fields with China's main domestic distribution network...
...BOSS? China's Jiang Zemin, left, made his designated heir, Hu Jintao, party chief in '02 and President in '03. But only last month did he hand over the top military post...