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...depends in part on how successful the government is in curbing the excesses of the economic boom. According to recent reports by China's official news agency, NPC delegates will spend the week discussing topics like poverty alleviation, food safety and better conditions for workers. And last Saturday, Premier Wen Jiabao announced that the country would abolish taxes on farmers next year, two years ahead of schedule. "The Communist Party wants to maintain its monopoly on power," says Joseph Cheng, a political scientist at City University of Hong Kong, "But it is sophisticated and understands that it needs to address...
During a Lunar New Year visit to the hardscrabble mining town of Fuxin in 2003, Wen Jiabao told a group of miners that China's leadership was concerned about the coal industry and the lives of its workers. "At present," the soon-to-be Premier said, "we want to solve the problem of safe coal production...
...Wen told a group of officials he was willing to take responsibility for last week's blast, according to Hong Kong's Wen Wei Po newspaper. But it will take more than that before Fuxin's workers feel safer underground...
...Performance Of The Week AIDS patients in China's Henan province received an unexpected guest during Lunar New Year: Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao. Wen shook hands with HIV-positive villagers, hugged children orphaned by the disease, and urged the local government to do more. A third of the province's residents are HIV-positive; most contracted the virus while giving blood at tainted blood banks in the 1990s. For years, China downplayed its AIDS problem. No longer: Wen is the most senior official to visit Henan's AIDS sufferers...
...severely criticized for its investigation of physicist Wen Ho Lee in the mid-'90s, has added hundreds more counterintelligence agents and put at least one in every Energy Department research facility. The bureau also started cooperation initiatives with corporations, but still sees universities as a soft spot, with some 150,000 Chinese currently studying in the U.S. The FBI'S three most recent counterintelligence arrests were of suspects who had held student visas at some point. To help sort the few who go to America to spy from the thousands who go there for a better life, the FBI relies...