Word: politburo
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...Censors immediately removed it, but others soon offered their own commentary. "Looks like political murder," reads a typical posting on the People's Daily website. Chinese have seen this type of intrigue before. A Beijing vice mayor, Wang Baosen, committed suicide during a 1995 scandal that brought down a Politburo member and might have gone higher if Wang had lived. Likewise, Zhu's case will remain forever murky. To his widow, however, there is no doubt that he died at somebody else's hands. "My rage," says Fan, "is etched in my bones...
...students across China prepared for their National Day vacation last week, President Hu Jintao ordered the Communist Party Politburo into the classroom. He arranged for two respected professors to lecture the leaders on a touchy curriculum: law and democracy. During a 90-minute talk, the professors discussed such sensitive notions as how "the power to rule derives from the constitution and from law," says a source who attended the meeting. Hu closed the session with his firmest comment to date on political reform: "The party must enrich forms of democracy, perfect democratic procedures, expand citizens' orderly political participation and ensure...
...refused permission to register as candidates on technical grounds that they claim are politically motivated. The domestic opposition, which has already called Ilham's appointment a coup, is threatening mass demonstrations. Urbane and sinister, Aliyev rose through the ranks of the KGB and Soviet Communist Party hierarchy to the Politburo, where he was famous for spectacularly fulsome tributes to Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev. His career withered with the advent of Mikhail Gorbachev, but by 1993 he had maneuvered himself into the presidency of the newly independent Azerbaijan with a performance worthy of a Shakespearean villain. He first offered assistance...
...Beijing last weekend, Tung probably didn't hear all the criticisms that China's leaders have of him. There are many. According to my source, politburo members Luo Gan and Li Changchun have blamed the Hong Kong government for expecting fewer than 50,000 protesters on the streets on July 1, when about 500,000 actually turned out. How, they have asked, could a government be so out of touch with popular sentiment?and how could they have so badly botched the selling of Article 23? Perhaps in search of a sympathetic ear, Tung requested a meeting with Jiang Zemin...
...Death by Default. Her actions helped clean up the orphanage, but today Zhang fears she has sent the wrong message to colleagues back home. She must live in exile, but the man whom Human Rights Watch blamed for covering up the scandal, Wu Bangguo, is No. 2 in the Politburo. "Other doctors will learn from my experience and keep their mouths shut," Zhang says...