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July 16, 2004
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Tension at the top
The New York Times has an article on Jiang Zemin and the tensions at the top of the CCP's leadership. While slightly alarmist it captures many of the recent differences between Jiang's more conservative old guard and the new, more open and progressive President Hu and Premier Wen. People often have the impression that China's polity is a unified monolith whereas the reality is it is as political and split as many other coutries. It is just that much of the debate and differences are sorted out behind closed doors. Jiang may: still hold ultimate power in China and has no immediate plans to give up his remaining position as head of the military...He could do worse than joining them in other ways, too. posted by Simon on 07.16.04 at 12:10 PM in the
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Simon, Nice work, and quickly too. You beat me to it; I am not able to post anything, Blogger is glitching badly again. Joe Kahn's piece goes a long way towards illuminating what we have been suspecting for some time. Joe has developed fine sources within the Party. What is interesting is that there is internal Party precedent for it which, in their minds at least, would not automatically signal "chaos." In the book "The Tiananmen Papers," we learned of the secret law that mandated the retired "Eight Elders" having final say in matters of "major crisis," which is what led to the terrible mistakes in judgement that ultimately led to the tragic events of June 3-4, 1989. Very interesting time to be in China. All the best, Joseph posted by: Joseph Bosco on 07.16.04 at 03:00 PM [permalink] |
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