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...most interesting signature, he says, is that of Jiang Zemin, the president of China...
...Jiang Zemin took the entire page," Hunt says. "He said, would we mind if he used a brush. His signature looked like calligraphy in Chinese...
...interesting thing is that the day before, [Vice President] Al Gore was here and signed his name very little. Jiang Zemin noticed that he took the whole page and Vice President Gore signed much smaller, but said, 'It's because our country China is much bigger,'" he adds...
Last week President Jiang Zemin made a grab for imperial status by inking a World Trade Organization deal with the U.S. that will open China to free international trade for the first time in history. Along the way, 73-year-old Jiang had to move mountains of conservative opposition at home, change the atmospherics between Beijing and Washington, and, yes, deal with 100 million tangled telephone lines. By any measure, it was a monumental deal for China. But for Jiang it was even more--a bid to boost his reputation from that of polished technocrat to the more mythical status...
...Jiang Zemin will continue to seek his Emperor's robes. His next hope for greatness may lie outside the economic sphere, in Taiwan. "Jiang wants some kind of date for reunification. Then he will go down in history," says Andy Xie, chief economist for Morgan Stanley in Hong Kong. But moving mountains and changing the weather may prove easier than persuading 22 million Taiwanese that their future is best assured under Emperor Jiang. Until then, WTO may be as good as it gets for the smiling President...