China&#39;s Jiang Zemin gives up military post
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BEIJING - China&#39;s former president Jiang Zemin has retired as chairman of the powerful Central Military Commission, his last official post in government.
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A meeting of China&#39;s Communists ends today with expectations the former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin is to give up military control.
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Hu Jintao became the undisputed leader of China as the country completed its first orderly transfer of power in the communist era on Sunday with the departure of former President Jiang Zemin from his top military post &#151; giving a new generation a freer hand to run the world's most populous nation.
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THE first seeds of Mr Jiang Zemin&#39;s decision to relinquish the powerful post of China&#39;s military chief were probably sown during a private retreat at Beidaihe in July.
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Pakistan&#39;s president, General Pervez Musharraf, yesterday reneged on a promise to stand down as army chief at the end of the year.
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Jiang Zemin, the conservative chief of the People&#39;s Liberation Army, may announce his resignation within weeks, raising hopes for democratic reform in China and an easing of tensions over Taiwan and Hong Kong.
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BEIJING : Former Chinese President Jiang Zemin&#39;s resignation as his country&#39;s military chief marks the complete orderly transfer of power from the third to the fourth generation of leaders.
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BEIJING - President Hu Jintao's new status as commander of China's military should strengthen efforts to fight corruption and control a surging economy, forcing resistant lower-level officials to recognize Hu as their undisputed leader, analysts said Monday.    Former President Jiang Zemin's decision to hand over his last post as military chief on Sunday, almost two years after Hu succeeded him as Communist Party leader, ended tensions over control that had let local officials resist pressure to cut spending and carry out painful reforms, the analysts said...
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China&#39;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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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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Chinese President Hu Jintao on Monday praised Jiang Zemin, who retired from the chairmanship of the Central Military Commission (CMC) of the Communist Party of China (CPC
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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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Former president Jiang Zemin gave up  the top job in China's military on Sunday, handing over his  last post to Communist Party chief Hu Jintao to complete a  historic leadership transition to a younger generation.
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Secrecy shrouded a meeting of China's  Communist Party for a third day Saturday, but party sources  said military chief Jiang Zemin was likely to give up his last  post due to ill health, completing a leadership succession.
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BEIJING  - Hu Jintao became the undisputed leader of China as the country completed its first orderly transfer of power in the communist era Sunday with the departure of former president Jiang Zemin from his top military post - giving a new generation a freer hand to run the world's most populous nation.
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Jiang Zemin, China&#39;s military chief and longtime senior leader, may formally step down on Sunday, putting President Hu Jintao in full command of the Chinese Army, state and
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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.