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With Zhu's ascension, China's future government will be in the hands of an extraordinary man, a lifelong technocrat who was purged twice, then clawed his way to the top, despite irking cadres across the country with his abrasive personality and his low tolerance for dishonesty and inefficiency. At stake is the very future of the Communist Party and the viability of its peculiar experiment in free-market socialism. But by all accounts, Zhu is one of the few top leaders who have the drive and decisiveness to hold the system together. Admired from Tokyo to Washington...
...politicized and plagued by factions. The current system also puts the president in an awkward position by saddling her with the job of both champion of her own agenda and moderator of debate. The council should elect one of its members to serve as moderator of debate, a parliamentarian technocrat of sorts, and allow the president and vice-president to fully pursue the agendas that prompted students to support them in the first place...
...whose 40,000 residents, some 20% of foreign origin, have been devastated by unemployment. Bruno Megret, 48, the Front's No. 2 leader, now wields de facto power there. (His wife Catherine officially ran in his place after he was disqualified for overspending on his campaign. ) Megret, a cold technocrat who hopes to succeed the aging Le Pen as party leader, was set back by his failure to win a parliamentary seat. But he is determined to make Vitrolles a showcase both for his own administrative skills and for the Front's ideology. Says Megret: "We are winning the battle...
...Jiang, 70, is better positioned than most people expected. The portly technocrat, a former mayor and party boss of Shanghai, has been a national figure only since 1989, and he is regularly dismissed as a lightweight and a weather vane who swings with the political winds. In fact he has shown a lot of political savvy since Deng called him to Beijing in the wake of the Tiananmen Square massacre. With Deng's help he took on all the posts that matter: President, General Secretary of the party, chairman of the Central Military Commission. But Jiang...
...deeper than his campaign tactics. In many ways he embodies Russia's ambivalence about its own political future: Can Western-style democracy work in this enormous, fractious country, or will it resort to its own hybrid of economic liberalism and tight political controls? Chubais may look like a Westernizing technocrat, but he has proved to be a formidable Kremlin infighter. His own political statements portray a mixture of authoritarian and democrat. "For a society to reach democracy," he said recently, "a dictatorship must be established within the government...