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When asked if he would have cheered or protested Chinese President Jiang Zemin's visit to Harvard last October, Wang deferred judgment and joked that it would have depended on whether he had class that...
...Fairbank Center was criticized for inviting Jiang Zemin, and it will be criticized for inviting me," Wang said. "There should be a free exchange of ideas. That's the tradition of a teaching university like Harvard...
...support in China's bureaucracy. Leftists do not like his familiarity with market economics. Conservatives accuse him of neglecting inland provinces, and the Young Turks of Beijing are jealous of his rapid rise. All these factors make Zhu less threatening and more acceptable to President and party leader Jiang Zemin. Also, one needs to consider what will happen to those who push reforms faster than the party elders want. Two very powerful leaders were removed from the scene in the past 10 years because they moved too quickly to enact reforms. MOHSIN A. VAHIDY Karachi...
...called Wang Weilin, was 19 years old and a student; others said not even that much could be confirmed. Some said he was a factory worker's son, others that he looked like a provincial just arrived in the capital by train. When American newsmen asked Chinese leader Jiang Zemin a year later what had happened to the symbol of Chinese freedom--caught by foreign cameramen and broadcast around the world--he replied, not very ringingly, "I think never killed...
...middle of a historic swing through East Asia, President Neil L. Rudenstine last week became the first sitting Harvard president to visit China, meeting with Chinese President Jiang Zemin and speaking to a standing-room-only crowd at Peking University...