Word: zemin
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...their outward calm, the Chinese are as anxious as the rest of the world about their future. Jiang Zemin, State President, head of the party, chief of the military committee, the "core" of the new collective leadership, was ordained by Deng eight years ago and has been running the government pretty much ever since. But history has never been kind to China in its moments of transition from one ruler to the next. And though there is confidence that these new leaders are firmly set upon the path of reform, there is equal doubt that they have the courage, stamina...
Stuart Schram, a research associate at the Fairbank Center and professor emeritus at the University of London, expressed concern about the effectiveness of Deng's successor, Jiang Zemin...
...growing that Deng Xiaoping, China's 92-year-old paramount leader and the architect of China's economic reforms may be dying -- or may already be dead. While there have been no reliable reports on Deng?s health status, U.S. officials paid the rumors more credence as President Jiang Zemin and Prime Minister Li Peng unexpectedly cut short countryside visits this weekend to return to Beijing. The Chinese government insisted on Tuesday that Deng's health was fairly good for a man of his years. "There has been no major change in Comrade Deng Xiaoping's health," assured one government...
...growing that Deng Xiaoping, China's 92-year-old paramount leader and the architect of China's economic reforms may be dying -- or may already be dead. While there have been no reliable reports on Deng?s health status, U.S. officials paid the rumors more credence as President Jiang Zemin and Prime Minister Li Peng unexpectedly cut short countryside visits this weekend to return to Beijing. The Chinese government insisted on Tuesday that Deng's health was fairly good for a man of his years. "There has been no major change in Comrade Deng Xiaoping's health," assured one government...
...electors arrived at the Hong Kong Convention Center in a procession of Rolls-Royces and Mercedes-Benz to cast their ballots for a winner anointed long before. Indeed, the deciding vote for shipping magnate Tung Chee-hwa may have been recorded in January, when China's President Jiang Zemin singled him out from a crowd of his peers for a handshake when he was in Beijing. The votes cast last week by the 400--themselves carefully screened by Beijing--were almost a formality. It may have been historic: to elect the first Chinese chief executive since Hong Kong became...