wikipedia - 18 Oct 2017 Jiang Zemin (born 17 August 1926) is a retired Chinese politician who served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of China from 1989 to 2002, as Chairman of the Central Military Commission from 1989 to 2004, and as President of the People's Republic of China from 1993 to 2003. Jiang has been described as the "core of the third generation" of Communist Party leaders since 1989.
The Epoch Times - 03 Apr 2018
Senior Chinese diplomat Yang Jiechi recently missed a major appointment to become a vice premier—signaling that the faction Yang belonged to, the faction loyal to former Chinese Communist Party leader Jiang Zemin—is further waning in power. The Jiang ...
The Boston Globe - 01 Apr 2018
Alan Romberg, an Asia affairs specialist at the State Department who spent more than two decades in the Foreign Service, died March 27 at his home in Bethesda, Md. He was 79. The cause was renal cancer, said a son, Jon Romberg. Mr. Romberg worked ...
The Sunday Guardian - 21 Apr 2018
Officials in Beijing say that President Xi, unlike predecessors such as Jiang Zemin, “acknowledges India to be a major power” and has, therefore, “instructed his team to give special attention to developing better ties” with India. While the Chinese ...
The Epoch Times - 18 Apr 2018
SHANGHAI—China aims to establish a free trade zone in the island province of Hainan by 2020 and will encourage multinationals to set up their international and regional headquarters there, as part of plans to open up the province's economy to foreign ...
Whitehead Journal of Diplomacy (blog) - 19 Apr 2018
Go Global, Meet the Locals: Pragmatism, Plunder, and Anti-Chinese Populism in Africa. by Dr. Richard Aidoo. Introduction. From Mao Zedong's Great Leap Forward to Deng Xiaoping's Opening Up, through Jiang Zemin's Going Out (also known as the Going ...
CNBC - 28 Mar 2018
In response to the Chinese government's announcement of Kim's visit, White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters, "The Chinese government contacted the White House earlier on Tuesday to brief us on Kim Jong Un's visit to Beijing ...
Irish Times - 16 Apr 2018
In 2004 one of Mr Xi's predecessors, Jiang Zemin, said that the Chinese party-state's “trinity-style leadership structure is not only necessary but also appropriate for a big party and country like ours”. But Mr Jiang, who succeeded Deng in 1989, is ...
Washington Post - 02 Apr 2018
Eric X. Li is a Shanghai venture capitalist and a trustee and chairman of the advisory committee of Fudan University's China Institute. SHANGHAI — Western media and the Chinese chattering classes have been in an uproar since China's National People's ...
The Epoch Times - 17 Apr 2018
Last year, Ling and other Party officials loyal to former Party leader Jiang Zemin were named by the Party as co-conspirators in a plot to overthrow current leader Xi. According to a story published in Beijing-based news magazine Caijing back in ...
The Epoch Times - 12 Apr 2018
Since coming to power in 2012, Xi has presided over a sweeping corruption crackdown, targeting members loyal to former leader Jiang Zemin. Previous media reports have revealed Sun was Jiang's pick for a loyalist successor to become Party leader. During ...
The Epoch Times - 16 Apr 2018
Since former Chinese Communist Party leader Jiang Zemin initiated a nationwide campaign to eradicate the practice of Falun Gong, hundreds of thousands of adherents have been detained in the Chinese regime's labor camps, detention centers, and prisons ...
WTOP - 02 Apr 2018
Both Hu and Hu's predecessor, Jiang Zemin, had done that. This would solidify a pattern of routine transfers of power that contrasted with the ruler-for-life one of Mao's time. Now, by contrast, some see Xi as the first leader of a new era of strongman ...
South China Morning Post - 24 Mar 2018
I argued it reflected Xi's careful consideration of representatives from other political factions, in particular Li Keqiang and Wang from the youth league and Han Zheng, former party secretary of Shanghai, the power base of former president Jiang Zemin ...
The Epoch Times - 27 Mar 2018
The Chinese Communist regime has significantly weakened, if not abolished, the power of one of its most deadly and notorious agencies: the “610 Office,” an extra-legal party organization similar to the Nazis' Gestapo. The move was part of a broad set ...
CNBC - 27 Mar 2018
Kim Jong Un's father, Kim Jong Il, met then-president Jiang Zemin in China in 2000 before a summit between the two Koreas in June that year. Kim Jong Il was considered at the time to have made the visit to reaffirm close ties with the North's biggest ...
Council on Foreign Relations (blog) - 02 Apr 2018
President Xi Jinping has dramatically reshaped China's presence and power on the world stage, touting a “new model” for developing countries to follow and advocating a “new type of international relations”; unlike predecessors such as Jiang Zemin and ...
Radio Free Asia - 26 Mar 2018
The whole world has heard about the constitutional amendments made at the recent session of the National People's Congress (NPC). One of them enshrined Xi Jinping Thought for a New Era into the constitution, making it the sixth political thought-form ...
The Epoch Times - 13 Apr 2018
In 1999, former Party leader Jiang Zemin launched a nationwide persecution of Falun Gong adherents, believing that the group's popularity—in 1999, there were up to 100 million adherents, according to Western media outlets quoting Chinese officials ...
9news.com.au - 11 Apr 2018
"I've read hundreds of books about China over the decades. I know the Chinese. I've made a lot of money with the Chinese. I understand the Chinese mind." – Donald J. Trump from his book, 'Trump: The Art of the Deal'. The big question after Xi Jinping's ...
