China Ex-President May Be Set to Yield Last Powerful Post
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Jiang Zemin, China's military chief and senior leader, has told Communist Party officials that he plans to resign, two people with leadership connections say.
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China will bar dissidents from a weekend memorial for Zhao Ziyang, a former Communist Party leader ousted in 1989 after sympathizing with Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protesters, but will allow some 2,000 other mourners to take part, an activist close to Zhao's family said Friday.
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Beijing (AsiaNews) - Sources in the Chinese capital revealed to AsiaNews that Jiang Zemin is going to step down tomorrow as chairman of the Central Military Commission, making way for President Hu Jintao to become the mainland&#39;s undisputed leader.
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President Hu Jintao ( è¡é¦æ¿¤ ) could ease China&#39;s hardline stance on Taiwan and Hong Kong now that his predecessor Jiang Zemin ( æ±æ¾¤æ° ) has retired but major policy changes are unlikely, analysts said yesterday.
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When President Hu Jintao opens the 17th Chinese Communist Party congress on October 15, he will be seeking to oust key rivals, name a successor and finally emerge from the shadow of his once powerful predecessor, Jiang Zemin.
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China's communists wrap up a key leadership meeting Sunday amid speculation over whether former President Jiang Zemin is giving up his last major post, accelerating a handover of power to his successor, Hu Jintao.
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BEIJING -- China's Communist Party chief, Hu Jintao, will seek to cement his grip on power while further whittling away at the residual influence of his predecessor, Jiang Zemin, at a key closed-door meeting that begins today. .
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China's Communist Party opened a  four-day, closed-door meeting on Thursday that will decide  whether military chief Jiang Zemin completes a leadership  succession by passing on his last post to party chief Hu  Jintao.
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Secrecy shrouded a meeting of China's  Communist Party for a third day Saturday, but a Hong Kong  newspaper added to speculation that military chief Jiang Zemin  would give up his last post and complete the succession to  party chief and president Hu Jintao.
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China's Communist Party is due to wrap up a four-day meeting on Sunday at which military chief Jiang Zemin is expected to give up his last post, completing a historic leadership succession.
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BEIJING - Former president Jiang Zemin turned over his last major post as chairman of the commission that runs China's military to his successor Hu Jintao, the government said Sunday, completing the country's first peaceful leadership transition since its 1949 revolution.    Jiang, whose term was to have run until 2007, handed in his resignation during a meeting of the ruling Communist Party's Central Committee, the official Xinhua News Agency said in a brief dispatch...
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China's Communist Party chief Hu Jintao will seek to cement his grip on power while further whittling away at the residual influence of his predecessor Jiang Zemin at a key closed-door meeting which begins on Sunday.
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China's leader depends on ancient wisdom and communist doctrine to guide a modern empire
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Analysts say ChinaÂs rulers are trying to shake up the leadership and wipe out resistance to their policy agenda.
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China&#39;s former Communist Party chief and president, Jiang Zemin, plans to leave government, resigning from his last official position.
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BEIJING - Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao yesterday pledged to improve the leadership of the Communist Party at a time when its popularity is waning.
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China&#39;s Communist Party opened a four-day, closed-door meeting on Thursday that will decide whether military chief Jiang Zemin completes a leadership succession by passing on his last post to party chief Hu Jintao.