Word: rongji
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Thousands filled the streets in protest and welcome as Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji gave a speech downplaying U.S. trade deficit concerns at MIT's Kresge Auditorium yesterday...
Born also questioned Healy about who would be paying for the extra security needed for Chinese Prime Minister Zhu Rongji's visit to MIT tomorrow...
Born also questioned Healy about who would be paying for the extra security needed for Chinese Prime Minister Zhu Rongji's visit to MIT tomorrow...
Chinese premier Zhu Rongji leaves the United States on Wednesday without the economic prize his country has sought for more than a decade: a deal with the U.S. to join the World Trade Organization. What makes the failure particularly frustrating is that ?both sides were 95 percent in agreement over the outstanding issues,? says TIME Beijing bureau chief Jaime FlorCruz. What was missing was the handshake -- that is, the trust. ?The economic differences were mostly bridged," says FlorCruz, ?but not the political problems.? China agreed to lower most of the trade barriers the U.S. has long sought to pierce...
This is Zhu territory, right on the edge between disgrace and success, between oblivion and celebrity, between smiling self-confidence and apoplectic fury at incompetence and corruption. "I've seen documents detailing corruption involving local leaders," says a Beijing official. "On the margins is Zhu Rongji's terse inscription: CHE (Fire him!)." When TIME wrote last October that his wings had been burned by being too ambitious with reforms, Zhu sent a message through former U.S. Trade Representative Carla Hills: "Tell TIME my wings are still strong...