Word: successional
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Jockeying over succession
Jiang spends his working day balancing the yin and yang of order and chaos; modernization and stability; nationalism and cosmopolitanism; reformers and hard-liners. But the president who turns 75 this summer is due to retire 18 months from now, and the jockeying for influence over his succession is already...
Still, even if the leaders on both sides - hawk- vs.-dove differences in both capitals notwithstanding - need to bring the matter to a close, their room for maneuver may also be limited by domestic political concerns. China's closed authoritarian system is nonetheless complex, with a number of rival power...
China has always been very hard to read. U.S. officials are aware that there's a struggle under way between the more diplomatically oriented elements and the military types in the Chinese leadership, and that's going on as President Jiang undertakes the delicate task of engineering his succession. So...
Filming begins after sunset, and Timkul has already downed several cans of Heineken, insisting she was so nervous the night before she couldn't sleep. Chung has a few too. It's a miminal set: white walls, rotating ceiling fans, a plain dark wooden bed. Nonzee drapes a mosquito net...