Word: politburo
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...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 and members of the ruling Politburo Standing Committee have made six more. China is clearly trying to exploit strains between Europe and the U.S., and has voiced its own gripes with the U.S. as well. Shortly before the election, China's most important foreign-policy mandarin, retired former Foreign Minister Qian Qichen, publicly criticized the "Bush...
...planning assumptions this tax policy committee will be charged with. This talk about bipartisanship and economists obscures the fact that the Bush team knows exactly the direction it’s heading. For several weeks now there have been quiet (and not so quiet) rumblings from the Bush-Cheney politburo about that perennial conservative darling—the “flat tax.” And this talk about corporate loopholes? Not unless Corporate America’s getting something in return—and no doubt they would...
...Politburo's only goddess in residence worked in the oil industry for years before serving as China's chief trade negotiator. She was appointed Health Minister during the SARS crisis last year, replacing Zhang Wenkang, who for weeks had steadfastly denied that there was an epidemic. Wu was committed to transparency. "She told me things she didn't have to because she values openness," says Henk Bekedam, the World Health Organization's China representative. Wu has turned her attention to a far deadlier plague. The Health Ministry reckons that China has 840,000 HIV-positive citizens, but the nation only...
...after 37 years of self-exile in Germany, returned to be charged with violating the National Security Law by spreading North Korean ideology; to seven years in jail; in Seoul. The Seoul Central District Court concluded that Song, under an alias, had been a member of North Korea's Politburo since 1991, and his ideological writings "misled many South Koreans." Song, a naturalized German citizen, admitted to receiving money from the North, visiting North Korea numerous times and meeting with Stalinist dictator Kim Il Sung in 1991. His son has called him a "political prisoner of conscience," and Song...
...into a recently-appointed press secretary, who seems to serve little purpose beyond issuing empty statements of support for the council’s leadership. What is supposed to be an open, democratically-elected body representing Harvard’s undergraduates is taking on unsettling characteristics of the Soviet Politburo...