Word: zemin
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...November 1997, 1,000 people requested tickets to attend a speech by Chinese President Jiang Zemin...
...first met Jianli over six years ago when we were students together at the Kennedy School of Government. Former Chinese President Jiang Zemin was scheduled to speak on campus, and we met at the meeting of many Harvard students who were going to organize the protests against his visit. When President Jiang spoke on Nov. 1, 1997, it was the largest protest Harvard had seen since the Vietnam War, with over 4,000 protesters. Jianli spoke eloquently to the crowd about his love for China and what he witnessed in Tiananmen Square...
...November 1997, 1,000 people requested tickets to attend a speech by Chinese President Jiang Zemin...
After U.S. immigrant Gao Zhan was arrested while visiting Beijing with her husband and son in 2001, her conviction on charges of spying for Taiwan became an international incident. Human-rights groups trumpeted her cause and U.S. President George W. Bush complained to then Chinese President Jiang Zemin. A few days before U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell landed in Beijing for a visit in July 2001, the sociologist was released and returned to a hero's welcome in Washington...
...economic growth than on replaying the Maoist rhetoric of confrontation. "Hu puts more emphasis on substance in foreign policy rather than on symbols," says Chu Shulong, director of the Institute of Strategic Studies at Beijing's Tsinghua University, who advises the Chinese leadership on foreign affairs. "[Former President] Jiang Zemin tended to focus more on symbolic victories." Indeed, on a slew of issues ranging from Taiwan to Iraq, China is engaging in constructive policies that finally place the nation within a global context?not outside of it. "Up until a few years ago, China was unsatisfied with the international system...