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...HONG KONG Demos Chinese President Jiang Zemin visited Hong Kong to address the three-day Fortune Global Forum only to be met with demonstrations. Antiglobalization and pro-democracy protesters made their voices heard, while members of the Falun Gong spiritual movement silently showed their resentment of the group's persecution on the mainland. Hong Kong authorities prevented more than 100 Falun Gong practitioners from entering the former British colony...
...TIME: If Jiang Zemin were to visit Taiwan, what would you tell him? Chen: First, we would want Jiang to understand that Taiwan is a true democracy and that our legislature, media and society are democratic and diverse. Second, we hope that Jiang would understand that the "One Country, Two Systems" policy they advocate has no market in Taiwan. They should not think that just because Hong Kong people accept such a policy, 23 million Taiwanese would also accept it. Third, we would make Jiang understand that Taiwan practices true religious freedom. While in China the Falun Gong movement...
...magazine. China and Taiwan now have their epochal deal, signed by scions of wealth and privilege from either side of the Taiwan Strait. Winston Wong, the estranged son of Taiwan's most colorful executive, has gone into business with Jiang Mianheng, the low-profile son of Chinese President Jiang Zemin. They have started a $1.6 billion venture to make integrated circuits in Shanghai?a partnership that highlights the economic trend most worrying to Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian...
...chance when he met Jiang Mianheng, eldest son of Jiang Zemin. The young Jiang attended Philadelphia's Drexel University, where he earned a Ph.D in physics, after which he founded Shanghai Alliance Investment Ltd. The firm got stakes in the city's biggest infrastructure projects, including its airport and the broadband network, and that established Jiang the younger as Shanghai's kingpin of information technology. He reportedly met Wong in 1995, during a visit to the U.S. The first thing they found in common was their birthdays. Then they discovered matching ambitions, and began talking deals...
...Hong Kong last week at the FORTUNE Global Forum, a few of us got the chance to meet with China's President Jiang Zemin. For us TIME.com fans who like to go online, a key question was how China would be changed by the Internet, a topic raised by AOL Time Warner chairman Jerry Levin...