China&#39;s Hu Assumes Authority of Armed Services
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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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Chinese President Hu Jintao moved shrewdly to strengthen his position at the Party Congress. But that won't necessarily make implementing his policies any easier
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BEIJING, Oct. 22 -- Xi Jinping looked a little uncomfortable in the spotlight as President Hu Jintao introduced him Monday as the ranking newcomer in the Communist Party's elite Politburo Standing Committee. Li Keqiang, next in line in the nine-man club of China's senior mandarins, seemed more...
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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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WASHINGTON Jiang Zemin&#39;s surprise resignation of his chairmanship of China&#39;s Central Military Commission on Sunday marks a critical turning point in an otherwise murky and uncertain process of leadership succession in Beijing that began nearly two years
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Chinese President Hu Jintao&#39;s accession to full power and the final retirement of former President Jiang Zemin is being hailed as the start of a new era in Chinese politics.
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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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Hu Jintao, who just took over as chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC) of the Communist Party of China (CPC), and his predecessor Jiang Zemin had a meeting with all participants of the Fourth Plenum of the 16th CPC Central Committee in Beijing
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China&#39;s President Hu Jintao has succeeded Jiang Zemin as head of the powerful military commission, the government said Sunday, completing China&#39;s first peaceful leadership transition since its 1949 revolution.
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BEIJING President Hu Jintao replaced Jiang Zemin as China&#39;s military chief and de facto top leader on Sunday, completing the first orderly transfer of power in Chinese Communist Party history, state media announced.
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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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China and Pakistan have pledged to take their strategic partnership to a new level as Chinese President Hu Jintao became the first Chinese leader in a decade to visit Beijing's close ally.
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Description: Former Chinese President Jiang Zemin steps down as the head of the Chinese military, completing the first orderly handover of power in the history of the Chinese communist state.
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Former president Jiang Zemin gave up the top job in China&#39;s military 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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Chinese President Hu Jintao replaced ageing former leader Jiang Zemin as the nation's highest military chief, the final stage in the ruling Communist Party's first bloodless transfer of power.
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BEIJING - Former Chinese president Jiang Zemin yesterday relinquished his last official post as head of the military. The move completed the first peaceful power transfer in China since the Communist Party came into power in 1949.
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China has issued a national defence policy for the first time since President Hu Jintao became military chief, targetting the rise of independence forces in Taiwan.