Word: zemin
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Paramount among the collective leadership group is President and Communist Party chief Jiang Zemin. In spite of those titles, Jiang is viewed as a lightweight politician and possibly a short-term transition figure. An easy way to toughen up his unimpressive image is to stand up to the U.S. on trade. Jiang is unlikely to offer anything that could be read as a concession to Washington...
...political challenge, Deng's demise will throw open the question of how to fill the space he leaves behind. Officially, that question has already been answered. Since 1989, Communist Party rulers have been laying the groundwork for a stable transition to a generation of leaders grouped around President Jiang Zemin, who was anointed by Deng as the core of a new collective leadership...
...invest $16 million in a joint venture in Shanghai in 1995 that will manufacture equipment for integrated circuits. But this time the Delaware-based giant is trying to be smart about reducing its exposure to theft: in his August trip to Beijing, chairman Edgar Woolard lobbied Chinese President Jiang Zemin to safeguard the patents of manufacturers...
WASHINGTON -- Early last week, with the crisis in North Korea escalating, President Clinton tried to call Chinese President JIANG ZEMIN to persuade the Chinese to put pressure on Pyongyang. The Chinese, however, wouldn't take the call. The Chinese Foreign Ministry explained in a cable that Beijing did not wish to conduct diplomacy by telephone. Baffled, the White House went back to diplomatic channels...
...want war. They don't want ((South Korea)) to be demolished, because they want to use the South to refurbish the whole of their northeast. Harness that desire! But instead, you go on tormenting China. In ((U.S. Secretary of State)) Warren Christopher's final discussion with Jiang Zemin, Jiang said two things that were not reported ((by the official Chinese news agency)) to the press in China. I thought this very significant. Jiang said, "If we don't fight, we cannot become friends." In other words, it was positive. I want to be a friend. So we must have these...