Changes at the top of China&#39;s political establishment
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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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BEIJING -- From the walled compounds where China's Communist leadership runs the country has come the word: no more porn. No more nudity on the Internet. No more late-night erotica on the phone. Goodbye to racy text messages on the mobile.
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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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China is abandoning the Marxist template that has dominated the nationÂs history textbooks since the 1950Âs.
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China has raised its core interest rates for the first time in nine years, as the country&#39;s central bank moves to rein in the booming economy.
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Chinese President Hu Jintao has consolidated his position at the top of China&#39;s hierarchy by assuming authority over the country&#39;s armed forces, in addition to his political posts.
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China is celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of Deng Xiaoping, its late supreme leader. For most Chinese the diminutive figure was the man who set the country on a pragmatic reformist
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BEIJING, Oct. 21 -- The Chinese Communist Party announced Sunday that three of its most powerful leaders were retiring, making way for a new generation including the eventual successor of President Hu Jintao as head of the world's most populous nation.
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BEIJING, Aug. 30 -- The Chinese government announced Thursday that five senior officials were being replaced, including the finance and state security ministers, as part of a broad realignment leading up to a crucial Communist Party congress in October.
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Jiang Zemin has given up the top job in China&#39;s military, handing over the post to Communist Party chief Hu Jintao and completing a historic leadership transition to a younger generation.
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Six-party negotiations start Monday in Beijing, in a political landscape altered by the North's test.
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China&#39;s top communist leaders today wind up a high level meeting, with expectations that a political reshuffle has taken place.
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New rules come into force giving China more say over how Tibetan monks select their leader, the Dalai Lama.
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Hu Jintao became China&#39;s undisputed leader yesterday as the world&#39;s most populous nation completed its first orderly transfer of power in the communist era.
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Seven years after vowing to respect Hong Kong&#39;s vaunted autonomy, Chinese President Hu Jintao and his Politburo have been working overtime to grind down the city-state&#39;s feisty democrats, and to tighten the mainland&#39;s autocratic grip.
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China's cuisine is being altered by the growing ppularity of fast food, with Chinese now more likely than Americans to eat takeout meals.
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China&#39;s top leaders and representatives from all walks of life gather at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing August 22, 2004 to commemorate the birth centenary of late leader Deng Xiaoping, the chief architect of China&#39;s reform and opening-up drive.