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...growing that Deng Xiaoping, China's 92-year-old paramount leader and the architect of China's economic reforms may be dying -- or may already be dead. While there have been no reliable reports on Deng?s health status, U.S. officials paid the rumors more credence as President Jiang Zemin and Prime Minister Li Peng unexpectedly cut short countryside visits this weekend to return to Beijing. The Chinese government insisted on Tuesday that Deng's health was fairly good for a man of his years. "There has been no major change in Comrade Deng Xiaoping's health," assured one government...
...growing that Deng Xiaoping, China's 92-year-old paramount leader and the architect of China's economic reforms may be dying -- or may already be dead. While there have been no reliable reports on Deng?s health status, U.S. officials paid the rumors more credence as President Jiang Zemin and Prime Minister Li Peng unexpectedly cut short countryside visits this weekend to return to Beijing. The Chinese government insisted on Tuesday that Deng's health was fairly good for a man of his years. "There has been no major change in Comrade Deng Xiaoping's health," assured one government...
...electors arrived at the Hong Kong Convention Center in a procession of Rolls-Royces and Mercedes-Benz to cast their ballots for a winner anointed long before. Indeed, the deciding vote for shipping magnate Tung Chee-hwa may have been recorded in January, when China's President Jiang Zemin singled him out from a crowd of his peers for a handshake when he was in Beijing. The votes cast last week by the 400--themselves carefully screened by Beijing--were almost a formality. It may have been historic: to elect the first Chinese chief executive since Hong Kong became...
...mark the anniversary of the Tiananmen massacre, and was rearrested. If he was healthy enough to fast, the police reasoned, he was healthy enough to serve out his jail term. Last year, President Clinton mentioned U.S. concern with Chen's case at a meeting with Chinese President Jiang Zemin, which may, coupled with Christopher's visit, have provided the impetus for Chen's release. It is also possible the Chinese authorities may not want Chen to die in jail. Whatever the case, there is not much hope that Chen's release signals a softening of Chinese policy on human rights...
BEIJING: China's President Jiang Zemin says China will accept the invitation extended by the United States and South Korea to mediate four-party talks aimed at reaching a permanent peace on the Korean peninsula. A South Korean newspaper today quotes Jiang as saying, "We hope to play a constructive role for peace on the Korean peninsula." The two Koreas ended their 1950s hostilities with an armistice, and are technically still at war. Until now, there had been no official word on China's reaction to the April proposal by President Clinton and President Kim Young-sam of South Korea...