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...becomes clearer, voices from all quarters have warned of the dangers of unrest. In mid-November, President Hu Jintao said the crisis would be a grave test of the Communists Party's ability to rule China, a warning echoed by other lower ranking leaders. At a December speech, Premier Wen Jiabao confessed to being particularly worried about unemployed workers and university graduates. Even the head of the country's Supreme Court warned judges to take social stability into mind when passing rulings. Overseas, too, worry swelled about just how deeply China's fragile social compact might be shaken...
...great survivor. He had been a party member for nearly 60 years, and had been purged more often than a top model's digestive tract, only to claw his way back to the leadership. China was desperate. The horrors of the Cultural Revolution were a fresh memory. As Premier Wen Jiabao said in a speech to a World Economic Forum conference in Tianjin this year, in 1978 "the country was in a backward state ... with the economy on the brink of collapse...
...political pressure for accountability has dissipated. Parents of dead students, who once promised to take vengeance if justice wasn't served, have largely been silenced by intimidation and payoffs. In early September, local authorities blocked a group of more than 100 parents from voicing their complaints to Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao when he visited the site of a destroyed school...
...rural land law that will enable peasants to effectively lease out the right to use their land, the changes amount to a "New Deal with Chinese characteristics," JPMorgan economist Jing Ulrich wrote in a recent report. They also represent a political triumph for President Hu Jintao and his Premier, Wen Jiabao. The two men have been stressing the importance of measures aimed at relieving poverty in the countryside since coming to office in 2003. Until now, their efforts to enact concrete measures to back those promises have often been frustrated by opponents within the Communist Party who believe the government...
...surprising degree, China appears to still be listening. It's true that at a meeting in Beijing late last week of Asian and European leaders premier Wen Jiabao called for more global regulation of financial markets, but that's become conventional wisdom pretty much everywhere. "Few among Beijing policymakers are arguing to build more walls between China and the outside world when it comes to trade or financial markets," says one western diplomat who attended the ASEM meeting last week. Officials in Beijing are quick to point out that key policymakers at the Bank of China, the National Development...