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...October 31: Chinese President Jiang Zemin addresses Harvard students and the nation from a lectern in Sanders Theatre. Thousands of protesters and Jiang supporters crowd the streets outside the hall...
...cultural overhaul has taken nearly a half-century to get under way: former Premier Zhou Enlai first conceived of a national stage in 1958, but plans languished during both the turmoil of the Cultural Revolution and the no-frills practicality of the Deng Xiaoping era. It took President Jiang Zemin to convince the country's leaders that Beijing needed to replace its fraying theaters with a new cultural landmark. It is the city's biggest public cultural landmark since Mao Zedong's mausoleum was built...
...ahead with a deal to supply an advanced airborne surveillance system to Beijing, despite pressure from President Clinton during his Tuesday meeting with Prime Minister Ehud Barak to stop the sale. The Israeli hard line coincides with an historic visit to the Jewish state by China's President Jiang Zemin Wednesday, but also reflects a growing tendency in Israel to define its long-term interests independently of the U.S. rather than to depend exclusively on Washington's good offices for its long-term survival...
...have become inevitable in the long term. Taiwan's president-elect Chen Shui-bian began softening his rhetoric on independence from China even before his victory in Saturday's poll, and on Monday he called for peace talks with Beijing, an offer promptly rejected by President Jiang Zemin. The investors who bolted Taiwanese equities Monday, shrinking the value of the Taipei stock market index by 2.5 percent, may have had a savvy read of the long-term implications of the election: Chen's victory defies Beijing's insistence on bringing the "rebel province" back under mainland rule in the near...
...make good on its promise to attack the island if Democratic Progressive Party candidate Chen Shui-bian won the presidential election Saturday have been allayed - for now. And so Beijing and Taipei have locked in a holding pattern: Chen maintains that his country is sovereign, while Chinese President Jiang Zemin holds (as does the U.S.) that Taiwan is a subset of China. As if to confirm that state of affairs, Chen, speaking in a post-victory speech in Mandarin as a seeming display of respect to China, said he wouldn't hold a national referendum on declaring Taiwanese sovereignty. Meanwhile...