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...protest was the second largest in Harvard’s history—exceeded in size only by demonstrations that met Chinese President Jiang Zemin in 1997—and represented the first major response of Harvard students...
...China's National People's Congress, when it opens March 5 to rubber-stamp Wen's promotion to Premier, will complete a generational changing of the guard. The enigmatic Hu Jintao, already named last year to lead the Communist Party, is set to succeed Jiang Zemin as President. Meanwhile Wen, 60, will replace Zhu Rongji. He has some size-14 hobnailed boots to fill. The brilliant but overbearing Zhu, 74, brought China into the World Trade Organization and hacked away for a decade at the stultifying vestiges of the command economy. For the world's most prominent businessmen, including Microsoft...
...Nevertheless, it appears South Korea may have softened the U.S. stance somewhat. Unlike its nearly unilateral approach to Iraq, the Bush administration has been actively consulting with North Korea's neighbors during the nuclear crisis. Bush spent 15 minutes on the phone last week with Chinese Presi-dent Jiang Zemin. (China has urged North Korea to abandon its nuclear-wea-pons program.) Over the weekend, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian Affairs James Kelly was scheduled to meet with representatives of South Korea, China, Japan and other countries. More tellingly, the U.S. last week even opened a channel...
...China has already fired warning shots across Kim's bow. During a summit this month, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Jiang Zemin put North Korea high on their agenda, and afterwards issued a joint statement urging Pyongyang to drop its nuclear weapons program. Last week, Beijing signaled that Kim, who has visited China twice in the last three years, is for the moment persona non grata on the mainland. Asked about reports that a sit-down between Kim and Chinese leaders was imminent, Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao said: "There is no such thing." "The idea that China...
...hard to say good-bye, and China's outgoing President Jiang Zemin seems determined not to. Despite hopes for a real transfer of power to new Communist Party leader Hu Jintao, officials say Jiang will remain as chairman of the Central Military Commission for several more years. Army general Xu Caiyou, whom Jiang just promoted, declared that his boss's continued leadership ensures "lasting political stability." Less charitable observers have portrayed it as a simple lust for power...