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...Inside the meeting room, those selected to ask questions were planted within easy view of the men on the dais. As the six members of the Politburo Standing Committee filed in, wearing Western business suits and fixed smiles, one stood out as the first among equals. "Good morning," Jiang Zemin said in English, waving gamely to his audience...
...Prime Minister Hun Sen -- and U.S. policy -- survive a Khmer Rouge bid for power? -- As the People's Republic of China celebrates its 40th anniversary, Jiang Zemin emerges as patriarch Deng Xiaoping's heir apparent. But will he go the distance? -- In South Africa, State President F.W. de Klerk has a surprising political foe: his brother...
...available in the West, both are light-years ahead of China economically. Is that really where China is going, or will the new resemble the old, a return to the Stalinist economic system that even Mikhail Gorbachev is trying to abandon? Will Deng succeed in anointing party chief Jiang Zemin as his successor, and would Jiang, in power, affirm continued economic liberalism...
...party General Secretary Jiang Zemin also met two foreign delegations--from Romania and Ethiopia--in a show of diplomacy as usual despite icy relations with Western governments protesting China's bloody supression of unarmed demonstrators...
...name at the top of the party roster reads Jiang Zemin, but power in China still rests in the hands of a few octogenarians. So it made sense for them to choose as party General Secretary a man known as "the weather vane." Jiang is the consummate apparatchik, whose rise to nominal power rests almost wholly on his ability to read China's swirling political winds correctly. The 63-year-old former mayor of Shanghai perfectly mirrors the party line of the moment -- slower economic reform coupled with rigid political orthodoxy -- as he made clear last week in his maiden...