Word: mayors
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Sitting between his interpreter and Drexel University President Constantine Papadakis, Jiang listened to brief introductions from Philadelphia Mayor Ed Rendell and Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge, who both highlighted the economic ties between their constituencies and China...
...Jiang Mian Heng, graduated from Drexel University in 1991 with a Ph.D in electrical engineering. Jiang himself has previously visited the United States. As mayor of Shanghai, Jiang toured sister city San Francisco and became fast friends with its mayor, Dianne Feinstein, who is now a Democratic Senator from California...
Although Jiang was mayor of Shanghai during the Tiananmen Square massacre of 1989, he is nevertheless the unrepentant heir to a regime that continues widescale human rights abuses, and as such he should be held fully accountable. The ghoulishness of some of these deeds surpasses the fright caused by any Halloween costume...
Reps. Timothy J. Toomey Jr. and Alvin E. Thompson voted in favor of the bill, while Rep. Alice K. Wolf, a former mayor of Cambridge, voted against...
...period before the Tiananmen square massacre, and after Hu Yaobang, the ex-General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, passed away, democratic movements started all over China. Jiang Zemen, who was then Mayor of Shanghai, was the first to strike out against these movements. He banned the World Economics Herald special issue which commemorated Hu Yaobang, fired Qin Benli as the Chief Editor and put him under investigation...