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...means when seeking justice. In January, for example, hundreds of villagers in Henan and Guangdong provinces overturned cars and attacked officials accused of corruption. The anger is strongest in a vast countryside where hundreds of millions have been bypassed by economic development and face increasingly hard lives. (Premier Zhu Rongji acknowledged last week that "incomes for farmers in some major grain producing areas ... are decreasing...
...Texas photo op is dear to Jiang because he's had a spate of bad publicity of late. Frustrated proponents of political reform have smuggled abroad an insider's memoir, believed authentic by U.S. sinologists, called Zhu Rongji in 1999. A hatchet job, the book, thought to be written by a Zhu aide, accuses Jiang of undermining China's immensely respected Premier by playing petty political games?denying him the office space he wanted, for one thing?and doing "everything in his power to turn Zhu Rongji into a figurehead." Then there's the indignity of revelations by military leaders...
...while Beijing brutalizes cults and other unrecognized faiths, it has allowed increased freedom to members of religions that are officially registered. In December a document issued by a party work conference, attended by the likes of President Jiang Zemin and Premier Zhu Rongji, declared religion in China "has moved onto the track of legalization and regularization." That doesn't sound like much, but it raised a glimmer of hope that the government might legalize some currently underground denominations. "We hope it means underground churches will be able to register and receive government protection without having to change the way they...
...both for Beijing and for businesses that traditionally prize political stability. Fifteen years in the making, China's WTO push constitutes just an epic prologue to great social and economic transformations to come. Observers uniformly call it a revolution from above. But unless successors to Jiang and Premier Zhu Rongji can deftly manage the upheaval, there will be fireworks of a much different kind--a revolution from below...
...fleeing Afghanistan have prompted it to support India's demands for a crackdown on their Pakistani supporters. Pakistan's other key Cold War patron, China, likewise has its own interests in curbing the influence of radical Islam in the region, and the high-profile visit of Chinese premier Zhu Rongji to New Delhi on Monday despite India's tense military standoff with Beijing's traditional ally has impressed on Musharraf that he has no alternative but to make war on the Islamists...