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After decades of refusing to let outside human-rights monitoring agencies inspect its prisons, where thousands of dissidents have been held, China said it would give "positive consideration" to such visits by the International Committee of the Red Cross. The statement comes just before President Jiang Zemin meets this week in Seattle with President Clinton, who has made continued favorable trade status contingent on improved human-rights policies...
...sign that Beijing too is irritated, specifically with what hard-liners in the regime consider blackmail, interference and pressure from the West. Amid intensified maneuvering to succeed ailing senior leader Deng Xiaoping, the conservatives have gained influence in the top echelons of government. Last May, President Jiang Zemin told the Politburo, in reference to U.S. human- rights pressures, that "we will not yield to hegemonism and power politics. For the motherland's sovereignty, independence and dignity, we are ready to pay a price." At the same time, uncertainty about the succession has begun to paralyze the Chinese bureaucracy...
...whom had taken advantage of the authority vacuum -- stand to lose power. Members of the top leadership are distancing themselves from Deng's children, and a corrupt Deng retainer was recently stripped of his immunity from prosecution by the man who may someday officially become Deng's successor, Jiang Zemin...
...close of the 17-day National People's Congress now under way, Jiang Zemin, 67, the current party general secretary, is scheduled to become the fifth President of the People's Republic. Some observers expect that example to spread down the ranks. Coincidentally, when Jiang takes over from retiring Yang Shangkun, 86, it will mark the first postrevolutionary Chinese government without a single prominent veteran of the famed 1934-35 Long March led by Mao. The passage of time has made that separation at last irreversible...
More than 2,000 of the Chinese Communist Party's faithful gathered for their 14th Congress and dutifully applauded the concept. The socialist system, said party chief Jiang Zemin, depends on rapid economic growth. At a news conference, Hong Hu, vice minister of an economic-reform commission, was asked to define the socialist market economy. "It is," Hong replied, "a market economy that is subject to the regulation of a socialist country...