China's Hu cautiously emerges from Jiang's
Shadow
Reuters
Tuesday February 18, 8:41 pm ET
By Benjamin Kang Lim
The following is an excerpt:
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" BEIJING, Feb 19 (Reuters) - China's Communist Party chief, Hu Jintao, moved the wife
of an Inner Mongolian herdsman to tears when he braved temperatures of minus 35
degrees Celsius (minus 31 F) to visit the couple's tent home last month.
In the days that followed, Hu's
predecessor, Jiang Zemin, rubbed
shoulders in Beijing with visiting
dignitaries from France, Myanmar
and Slovakia.
In the three months since Hu took
over as head of the party, the
division of power between the two
men has been made clear.
Hu, 60, may have taken over the top
job, and is destined to assume the
presidency in March, but Jiang, 76,
quietly grips the reins of power and
calls the shots when it comes to top
diplomacy."
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