Hu Becomes Undisputed Leader of China
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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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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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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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Chinese President Hu Jintao will give a Communist Party council some say in electing the Party's new core leadership in a breakthrough that could play against unpopular officials linked to his predecessor.
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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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Chinese Communist Party chief Hu Jintao is becoming more assertive in a rivalry with his influential predecessor, but the ageing Jiang Zemin is unlikely to give up
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Chinese President Hu Jintao on Wednesday exchanged congratulations with presidents of Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia to mark the 55th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations with the ...
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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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In the presence of French President Jacques Chirac and Mr. Hu Jintao, president of the People's Republic of China, on Oct.
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Chinese President Hu Jintao Sunday described late leader Deng Xiaoping as a great man of the world whose scientific judgment of the modern times and deep vision intothe
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Get INQ7 breaking news on your Smart mobile phone in the Philippines. Send INQ7 BREAKING to 386. MACAU, China -- Chinese President Hu Jintao on Monday gave an unprecedented public dressing down to the leadership
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BEIJING  - Chinese President Hu Jintao replaced ageing former leader Jiang Zemin as the nation&#39;s highest military chief, the final stage in the ruling Communist Party&#39;s first bloodless transfer of power.
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The system of Chinese President Hu Jintao, who has ascended to the chairmanship of the Chinese Communist Party&#39;s Central Military Commission, will strengthen pragmatism in the Sino-North Korean relationship and bring gradual changes to bilateral ties
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China's Communist Party chief, Hu Jintao, pulled a close political ally out of a problem-plagued province Monday in an apparent further consolidation of power after assuming the top job in the military in September.
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Speaking to hundreds of top leaders and ordinary citizens, China's President Hu Jintao hailed Deng Xiaoping as the architect of China's economic reforms on Sunday, the 100-year anniversary of the late supreme leader's birth.
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Chinese Communist Party chief Hu Jintao has taken command of the world&#39;s largest military, inheriting the challenge of transforming a 2.5-million-strong force long bent on making money into a world-class war machine.
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Chinese President Hu Jintao presented on Saturday certificates to two nearly promoted generals in his capacity as chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC) of the Communist Party of China.