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Strategies & Market Trends : China Warehouse- More Than Crockery -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: RealMuLan who wrote (3545)	10/7/2004 6:00:54 PM
From: RealMuLan	Respond to of 6370

Tables turned on Jiang's allies since power shift By Feng Liang HONG KONG - After Chinese incumbent president Hu Jintao replaced his predecessor Jiang Zemin as the country's new commander-in-chief, political observers say China's power shift has finally been completed. Since the Communist Party's decisive meeting last month, the fourth-generation of leadership - with moderate reformist Hu as the paramount leader - now takes full control in the Middle Kingdom. Hu is now party chief, the nation's president and supreme military chief. The allies of his rival Jiang may not have been routed, but they are subdued, and in some cases the tables are being turned against them. Seeing that the pro-Hu faction seems to have gained the upper hand in Zhongnanhai (Beijing's walled compound of leadership), some predict changes in the country's political scene. Since late September, appeals have resounded to address the malpractices in the education sector and in HIV/AIDS-stricken Henan province, both of which are usually considered the dominions of Jiang Zemin, who also had been head of state and was well known as head of the Shanghai Clique, comprised of his colleagues and proteges from the east coast near Shanghai and Shandong province. After all, now it is the all-new Hu era. ... atimes.com