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Fourways Review
February 25, 2018
Xi's two predecessors, Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao, both served two five-year terms, but he has signalled that he has bigger ambitions. – Name in constitution –. At the 19th five-yearly party congress last October, the party unveiled a new seven-member Standing Committee — its top ruling body — thatÃÂ ...
BuzzFeed News
February 25, 2018
A presidential term in China is five years, and this means 64-year-old Xi will likely be able to hang onto power longer than his two predecessors, Hu Jintao and Jiang Zemin. It's particularly significant because the term limit was first imposed by former Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping as a kind of protectionÃÂ ...
WLWT Cincinnati
February 25, 2018
By contrast, Xi's predecessor Hu Jintao was pushed out of his political roles and stripped of influence once Xi came to power. Since then he has rarely taken part in public engagements, and many of his allies have fallen to Xi's anti-corruption campaign. Thomas Kellogg, executive director of GeorgetownÃÂ ...
Asia Times
February 21, 2018
Firmly on the fast track, he was appointed by the then President Hu Jintao in 2009 as his special representative to chair the Economic Track of the United States-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue. He was also named as one of the “most influential people in the world” in Time magazine's annual list ofÃÂ ...
The Times
February 20, 2018
Before him, President Hu Jintao was a water engineer. Before him, President Jiang Zemin was an electrical engineer. While the US is tearing itself apart in a partisan civil war, Chinese leaders have been making decisions that will benefit their nation decades from now. Five years ago China landed a robotÃÂ ...
The Japan News
February 18, 2018
Former President Hu Jintao's term was the age of the moderately prosperous society. The next goal is common prosperity, and from 2020, China will enter the age of common prosperity.” Last November, on the heels of the inauguration of the second Xi administration, Hu Angang, a professor at TsinghuaÃÂ ...
The Economist
February 15, 2018
In 2016 Mr Xi was officially anointed as the “core” of the leadership, a moniker never conferred upon his predecessor, Hu Jintao. This was partly intended as a warning to recalcitrant officials that Mr Xi must be obeyed. If the party chief feels the need for further title inflation, perhaps the lower-downs are stillÃÂ ...
The Japan News
February 14, 2018
According to the member, officials in key party and military posts have merely been currying favor with Xi, and the influence of elders, including former general secretaries Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao, continues to diminish. At a plenary session of the Communist Party of China Central Committee in January,ÃÂ ...
NHK WORLD
February 14, 2018
The source says then-Chinese president Hu Jintao met with Jang Song Thaek, a high-ranking North Korean official, in August 2012, just months after the death of Kim Jong Il. Jang was Kim Jong Un's uncle and, according to the source, he told Hu he wanted Kim's half-brother, Kim Jong Nam, to be theÃÂ ...
NHK WORLD
February 13, 2018
A Chinese government official has suggested that the killing of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's brother in Malaysia one year ago resulted from a conflict over who should succeed their father, Kim Jong Il. Kim Jong Nam, the older brother of the North Korean leader, was fatally poisoned by the highly toxicÃÂ ...
Wichita Eagle
February 12, 2018
Sun had been identified most closely with the China Youth League faction associated with Xi's predecessor, Hu Jintao, which Xi has effectively sidelined in the succession process. Lu had been placed under investigation in November on suspicion of "serious violations of discipline." He had already beenÃÂ ...
ABC News
February 12, 2018
Sun had been identified most closely with the China Youth League faction associated with Xi's predecessor, Hu Jintao, which Xi has effectively sidelined in the succession process. Lu had been placed under investigation in November on suspicion of "serious violations of discipline." He had already beenÃÂ ...
Nikkei Asian Review
February 11, 2018
For the past five years, Li Yuanchao, a key member of the faction led by former President Hu Jintao, has been vice president. But in October, Li was not even elected to the 19th Central Committee despite being short of retirement age at 67. While his title might speak of power, Li has little. Yet if Wang stepsÃÂ ...
Inquirer.net
January 8, 2018
And Xi actually took his cue from his predecessor, former President Hu Jintao, who years ago talked about his plan for “peripheral diplomacy.” In that same year in 2013—not by coincidence—China launched what it called the “Belt Road Initiative,” the much analyzed BRI by media worldwide, focusing onÃÂ ...
The Interpreter
January 5, 2018
(The issuing body puts out numbers seriatim; for example, during the previous Hu Jintao administration the office only issued 20-30 documents per year.) A General Office document numbered 94 seems high, but not implausibly so. The General Office issued 60-70 or so per year in the first few years of theÃÂ ...
The Straits Times
January 5, 2018
Mr Hu Jintao, Mr Xi's predecessor, was happy with just being president. Mr Xi, by contrast, has grabbed every title going and immortalised his own thought in the party's Constitution. Mr Trump has competition, in other words. For the first time since Mao Zedong, China has a living personality cult. US-ChinaÃÂ ...
South China Morning Post
December 29, 2017
For 2018, however, the delicate issue of delivering on promises comes to the fore. Before the 19th party congress, questions lingered about divisions within the elite and unresolved issues from the administration of former president Hu Jintao. Now the congress is past. Xi has had his way. He commands theÃÂ ...
The Japan Times
December 25, 2017
A look at recent bilateral history shows that Chinese leaders have visited Japan in the years ending with eight — Jiang Zemin in 1998 and Hu Jintao in 2008. A Chinese diplomatic source says both Jiang and Hu chose to visit Japan shortly after being re-elected to their second term because that was theÃÂ ...
Radio Free Asia
December 22, 2017
Chinese leaders' faces -- Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin, Xi Jinping, Hu Jintao -- are printed on a badge sold as a souvenir at Tiananmen Square in Beijing, Aug. 1, 2017. AFP. China's rubber-stamp parliament, the National People's Congress (NPC), is considering criminalizing anyone deemedÃÂ ...
European Council on Foreign Relations
December 15, 2017
Delivered over three and a half hours on 18 October, Xi's report to the 19th party congress was not only significantly longer than those given by his predecessors Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao – in 2002, 2007, and 2012 – but it was also more ambitious in its agenda.[1] After reviewing the work of the outgoingÃÂ ...
The Diplomat
October 30, 2017
In a hotel room at one of the Party institutions in September this year, I was intrigued to see the three volume collected works of Hu Jintao placed on the bookshelf. Symbolically, their plain, unexciting covers were sandwiched between much bolder, redder, visible fare about Xi Jinping. That seems to be Hu'sÃÂ ...
Greenville
December 31, 1999
During the 19th Party Congress in fall 2017, Chinese President Xi Jinping proclaimed that China had entered a new era. In this new era, the Chinese government's main task is to meet the needs for prosperity of the overall Chinese population. President Xi did so as he started his second term of office as theÃÂ ...
Caixin Global
December 12, 2017
... the tightened rules under pressure to support infrastructure investment to meet the central government's growth targets, and to pay for all the new health, pension and welfare benefits introduced by the administration of former President Hu Jintao. https://www.caixinglobal.com/2017-07-14/101116048.html.
MacroBusiness (blog)
December 11, 2017
But those were the days of the technocratic Hu Jintao and the steady Chinese liberalisation program. It was very counter-productive to the hope of a free China to “contain” it at its most laissez faire point. But the GFC changed all of that, illustrating very clearly to the Chinese Communist Party that centralisedÃÂ ...
The Epoch Times
December 11, 2017
Chen Bingzhong, former head of the national health education institute, wrote in an open letter to then-Party leader Hu Jintao in 2010, that there were at least 100,000 people suffering from HIV due to contamination from selling blood plasma in the 1990s. According to the Chinese regime's mouthpieceÃÂ ...
The Diplomat
December 9, 2017
Although Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao's names are not mentioned in the Constitution's “guides to action,” their fundamental ideas are. In fact, all five of communist China's top leaders from Mao to Xi each have a paragraph dedicated to illustrating their individual thoughts and theories. The Theory of ThreeÃÂ ...
The Straits Times
December 4, 2017
Many see him to be more powerful than his two predecessors, Mr Jiang Zemin and Mr Hu Jintao. Yet, five years ago when Mr Xi came to power, there was little sign he would come this far so quickly, at home and on the world stage. He was a compromise choice of two political factions, had no political baseÃÂ ...
Nikkei Asian Review
November 20, 2017
Even as he curbs the power bases of predecessors Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao, Xi must keep peace among the 25 Politburo members. Many of ...
The Diplomat
November 17, 2017
As early as 2007, then-Chinese President Hu Jintao was quoted as saying that “the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation will definitely be accompanied by the thriving of Chinese culture.” More recently, in 2014, President Xi Jinping said, “We should increase China's soft power, give a good ChineseÃÂ ...
TODAYonline
November 17, 2017
The 17th Central Committee, formed in the middle of former party chief Hu Jintao's 10-year reign, was the youngest in half a century, with an ...
Yahoo Singapore News
November 13, 2017
The 17th Central Committee, formed in the middle of former party chief Hu Jintao's 10-year reign, was the youngest in half a century, with an ...
The National Interest Online
November 13, 2017
The most high-profile targets included Xu Caihou and Guo Boxiong, who both served as CMC vice chairmen under Hu Jintao and were ...
Nikkei Asian Review
November 13, 2017
He had already emerged as the front-runner in the race to succeed Hu Jintao as the Chinese Communist Party's general secretary in the ...
South China Morning Post
November 12, 2017
The 17th Central Committee, formed in the middle of former party chief Hu Jintao's 10-year reign, was the youngest in half a century, with an average age of 53.5 according to Li's data. Just 28 of the current Central Committee's full and alternate members are younger than 53, compared with 71 when theÃÂ ...
Council on Foreign Relations (blog)
November 7, 2017
... policy thought, the developing country school and the traditional geopolitics school, competed for dominance in China under Hu Jintao.
Axios
November 7, 2017
Happy Saturday ... President Trump has started his weekend in Asia, where he will be for the next 11 days visiting Japan, South Korea, China, Vietnam and the ...
Council on Foreign Relations (blog)
October 30, 2017
Former Chinese president Hu Jintao, Chinese President Xi Jinping and former Chinese president Jiang Zemin raise their hands as they take a ...
Quartz
October 30, 2017
... belongs to the same league as Mao and reformer Deng Xiaoping, and is above his two immediate predecessors, Hu Jintao and Jiang Zemin.
The Diplomat
October 30, 2017
But from Xi's immediate predecessor, Hu Jintao, sitting on his other side, there was complete stillness and the lack of any discernible ...
Nikkei Asian Review
October 22, 2017
After months of wrangling with factions led by former presidents Hu Jintao and Jiang Zemin over just how much power the current leader should ...
South China Morning Post
October 20, 2017
A distinguished scholar-politician who has helped shape the official party ideology for three presidents – Jiang Zemin, Hu Jintao and Xi Jinping ...
South China Morning Post
October 18, 2017
... too far ahead of the two men immediately behind him – 91-year-old Jiang Zemin and 75-year-old Hu Jintao, his two immediate predecessors.
TIME
October 17, 2017
... his competitors in other intra-party cliques, including those surrounding his immediate predecessor Hu Jintao and former leader Jiang Zemin.
The Straits Times
October 17, 2017
... agenda for the next five years - and probably far beyond - free from continual faction infighting, a hallmark of president Hu Jintao's reign.
New York Times
October 17, 2017
Critics openly accused Mr. Xi's predecessor, Hu Jintao, of dithering as popular ire spread. On Wednesday, Mr. Xi will open another Communist ...
Lexington Herald Leader
October 17, 2017
... sidelining his competitors in other cliques, including those surrounding his immediate predecessor, Hu Jintao, and former leader Jiang Zemin ...
Nikkei Asian Review
October 16, 2017
Former Chinese President Jiang Zemin, right, attends the 2012 Communist Party congress that November alongside then-President Hu Jintao.
TIME
October 16, 2017
(“Deng Xiaoping 'theory,'” considered a lesser nod, has been included, while Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao both had their trademark philosophies added but ...
Nikkei Asian Review
October 14, 2017
Former President Hu Jintao instigated a push for giving party members a say in who the next leader should be, albeit through a gradual ...
The Straits Times
October 8, 2017
By October last year, he had already been designated the "core" of the party leadership, a status his predecessor Hu Jintao did not enjoy.
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