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...With nearly one in every seven citizens affected in some way by the floods, the government has prioritized flood relief and response operations. Late last month, President Hu Jintao visited flood victims in the southwestern city of Chongqing. "You have gone through a lot of hardships," Hu told them, according to state media. "The once-in-a-century rains and floods have destroyed your homes and washed away your belongings. I feel sad as you all, and we must have the determination and courage to get over the disaster...
...laced with antifreeze and tainted pet food from China, the anti-China sentiment on Capitol Hill has noticeably risen. So much so that Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson is about to head to China to raise "issues of concern to the U.S. Congress" with Chinese officials, including Chinese Premier Hu Jintao...
...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...