Word: zemin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...understand that the Chinese President Jiang Zemin has been invited to speak at Harvard University on Nov. 1. I am writing to request that you extend invitations to some of the prominent Chinese dissidents who live in exile in the United States to speak at the same event...
...Kennedy School of Government finalizes preparations for Chinese President Jiang Zemin's arrival at Harvard, some student groups are making plans to protest the event...
When the leader of the world's most populous country speaks, people listen--though it isn't always easy. Jiang Zemin, President of China, gives speeches loaded with fusty rhetoric, like "the primary stage of socialism" and "We will strive unswervingly to resolutely uphold Deng Xiaoping thought." His slicked-back hair, enormous spectacles and cryogenically fixed smile smack of the old-fashioned apparatchik. So wooden a leader is often in danger of being upstaged by his own podium...
...without a few rocky points. Concerns about China's human rights record and a growing trade imbalance make it unlikely that Zemin's visit will produce any major new initiatives. Instead, both sides are presenting this as an opportunity to establish normal relations...
Read TIME magazine?s exclusive interview with Jiang Zemin...