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...season depends on a host of factors: whether the NBA will take back a player who has missed training camp and the early part of the season, the success of Beijing's 2008 Olympic bid and even, in this era of frosty Sino-U.S. relations, rapport between Jiang Zemin and George W. Bush. Certainly, Dallas denizens are hopeful. "Tonight was a dream come true," said Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, after Wang's historic appearance. "There were so many things that could have gone wrong, and everything went right...
...interest of both to let the other side know there were divisions within their ranks. That's the nature of the game, played this round by George W. Bush, a blunt-spoken Westerner whose father was once a special envoy to China, and President Jiang Zemin, an aging autocrat who staked his authority on building a better relationship with the West, only to come under fire at home for going too far. In a test of pride and power, two Presidents fought to control the weapons of diplomacy, the tiny spaces between a concern, a regret and an apology...
...campaign to protest their colleagues' fate on the mainland. Beijing reacted with fury in January when 1,000 Falun Gong members held a meeting at Hong Kong's City Hall. Nor is there any dispute that the impetus to crush the group is coming from the very top. "Jiang Zemin let it be known that he wanted the crackdown," says an Asian diplomat in Beijing...
...part, Falun Gong continues to claim that it has no overarching political agenda. Still, the group has taken to describing Jiang Zemin as a "demon worshipper" infected with "Mad Power disease." And on January 1, its mysterious master, New York-based Li Hongzhi, upped the ante by releasing a curious scripture that appeared to allow violence in extreme cases when protesting ill treatment. For some Falun Gong followers, the words were a welcome call to arms. "It is not in Falun Gong's nature to be violent," says a retired teacher, who was arrested last year for her ties...
...city are running roughly $3 to $11 U.S. per sq. ft. But much more important are the clear signals coming from Beijing that anyone wanting to do serious big business with the communist government had better be prepared to shift to the mainland metropolis. Chinese President Jiang Zemin's national government has been a major exponent of Shanghai's new Pudong economic center, some 135 sq. mi. of former marshland that is the transplanted economic heart of the new Shanghai. Having invested around $185 billion in Shanghai's renaissance, China's rulers clearly want to see the rest...