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...fared badly, failing to maneuver his followers into key spots or secure a position for himself. His opponents, especially among military hard-liners, consider him too soft, too willing to submit to U.S. demands. So when word of the midair collision reached his home in the cloistered Zhongnanhai leadership compound in central Beijing, Jiang seized his chance to consolidate power by acting tough...
...secret three-month investigation of the sect by China's security services, during which agents infiltrated Falun Gong activities and clandestinely videotaped exercise sessions. The investigation was reportedly ordered by President Jiang Zemin himself after the silent demonstration by 10,000 members of Falun Gong on April 25 outside Zhongnanhai, the Beijing compound where China's top leaders live. At that time the group said it was protesting magazine articles labeling it a superstitious cult, a charge that could have led to its being banned. Instead it wanted to be recognized as a legitimate religious group...
...year-old leader, not known for late-night Web surfing, has reportedly become obsessed with the sect and its ability to organize its activities in cyberspace. Apparently Jiang frequently brings up Falun Gong in conversations with high-level foreign visitors, and Western diplomatic sources say he was driven outside Zhongnanhai in a car with tinted windows to observe for himself the group's silent protest in April...
...hours, more than 10,000 devotees planted themselves eight-deep on the sidewalk surrounding the nation's Zhongnanhai government compound, demanding that their Falun Gong sect, led by Li, receive status as a permitted group. The silent sit-in was by far the boldest protest in Beijing since the butchering of the pro-democracy movement almost exactly a decade ago. And the regime's response was just as stunning. Rather than attack, it granted leaders an audience with Premier Zhu Rongji...
Jiang, however, may be China's Surfer in Chief. In a recent interview with TIME, he confided that he has a PC at his Zhongnanhai home and uses it to log onto foreign databases. And top officials insist he is committed to a wired China, fully aware that the country's future depends on growth, which relies, in turn, on technology. Is it just possible that the real great leap forward begins with the initials...