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...China's President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao have styled themselves as political moderates. Although greater intervention in Hong Kong politics would damage that reputation, they have room to play good cop, holding out the promise of gradual reforms if the territory drops demands for direct elections. If Chen is re-elected in Taiwan, however, Beijing might come down even harder on Hong Kong. "Because the Taiwan situation makes China's leaders nervous," says Joseph Cheng, a professor of political science at Hong Kong's City University, "there will be very little room for tolerance or magnanimity toward Hong...
Last December, more than 100 Harvard faculty members signed two letters calling for Yang’s release. The letters were addressed to Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, who was speaking at the Business School that week...
...Dean Kirby gave us an overview of some new curriculum introduced such as courses in Mandarin and Cantonese,” Chen wrote. “We also asked him to talk a bit about [the] recent visit by Premier Wen [Jiabao] of China...
...number of petitioners heading to the capital has increased dramatically over the past few years. Though President Hu and Premier Wen Jiabao have made mingling with common folk a signature of their new administration?from shaking hands with aids patients to chatting with coal miners?the common touch hasn't trickled down to China's provincial leaders, who are widely viewed as aloof and corrupt. Without any recourse on the local level, the mainland's disenfranchised see little choice but to head to the capital. Their increasingly vocal calls for justice show that despite China's economic expansion, many citizens...
...economics than geopolitics" and that it's "largely up to China" to ease tensions. In 2002, China, at $103 billion, surpassed Japan as the country with the largest trade surplus with the U.S. The Bush Administration had a chance to raise some of these issues with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao when he visited Washington in December. But there were few signs that trade issues were a big concern. Wen accepted the 19-gun salute he received on the South Lawn of the White House, then fired his own volley, gently reminding his hosts that China is the fastest-growing market...